The quotations of

Elizabeth II

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022

1926–2022

7 quotes.

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
1957 Christmas Broadcast; quoted on royal website (25 December 1957)
- Good & Evil
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.
Speech during the commemorations of D-Day (6 June 2014).
- War & Peace
I declare before you all, that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperial family, to which we all belong.
Broadcast on her 21st birthday, from Cape Town (21 April 1947)
- Leadership
- Responsibility
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’.
Speech at the Guildhall, London, on the 40th anniversary of her accession (24 November 1992)
- Time
The right to change the government by the ballot box and not the barrel of a gun; perhaps the best definition of a democracy.
During a speech to President Gerald Ford celebrating the 200th anniversary of American independence.
- Democracy
We continue to be inspired by the kindness of strangers and draw comfort that — even on the darkest nights — there is hope in the new dawn.
Christmas Broadcast (25 December 2020)
- Hope
On behalf of the British people I salute the skill and courage which have brought man to the moon. May this endeavour increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind.
Message left on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11; NASA documentation (13 July 1969)
- Science

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