This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.