George VI quotes
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“Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.”
-- George VI -
“It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.”
-- George VI -
“There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.”
-- George VI -
“The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.”
-- George VISource : 1927 Opening, as Duke of York, the first Australian Parliament to assemble in Canberra, 9 May.
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.”
Source : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.108, Penguin Books India
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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