"It is easy enough to define what the……" — Queen Elizabeth II
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
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Queen Elizabeth II
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51 Quotes by Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II has 51 quotes on this site.
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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first…
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out…
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your…
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it…
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its…
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday…
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Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to…
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure…
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More Commonwealth Quotes
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one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
— Jim Bunning
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Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and…
— Augustus
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please…
— John Selden
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand…
— Winston Churchill
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Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in…
— George Washington
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All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the…
— Unknown Author
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I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right…
— Thomas Jefferson
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