Elizabeth II Quotes

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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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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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Our religions provide critical guidance for the way we live our lives, and for the way in which we treat each other.

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In tomorrow's world we must all work together as hard as ever, if we're truly to be United Nations

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As Groucho Marx once said, 'Anyone can get old—all you have to do is to live long enough.'

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I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
On her 21st birthday

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Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

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The right to change the government by the ballot box and not the barrel of a gun; perhaps the best definition of a democracy.

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It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.

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Long live the difference, but long live the Entente Cordiale.

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The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts... everything we do, we do for the young.

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1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an 'Annus Horribilis'.

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We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas?

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Some things stay there, some things go out of the other ear, and some things don't go in at all.

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With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.

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Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

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Our peace and prosperity can never be taken for granted and must constantly be tended, so that never again do we have cause to build monuments to our fallen youth.

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Speech on her 25th wedding anniversary:
I think everybody really will concede that on this, of all days, I should begin my speech with the words 'My husband and I'.

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