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First Televised Speech from Her Majesty, the Queen
royal.uk via youtube, speak-ola ^ | December 25, 1957 | Queen Elizabeth II

Posted on 06/28/2018 6:28:59 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you. A successor to the Kings and Queens of history; someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films but who never really touches your personal lives. But now at least for a few minutes I welcome you to the peace of my own home.

That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us. Because of these changes I am not surprised that many people feel lost and unable to decide what to hold on to and what to discard. How to take advantage of the new life without losing the best of the old.

But it is not the new inventions which are the difficulty. The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.

They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.

In this critical moment in our history we will certainly lose the trust and respect of the world if we just abandon those fundamental principles which guided the men and women who built the greatness of this country and Commonwealth.

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.

I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands...

(Excerpt) Read more at speakola.com ...


TOPICS: History
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1 posted on 06/28/2018 6:28:59 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You should add above that this is from 1957.

If she gave this speech today, she’d catch hell from the Progressive Left....the train (in the UK) has “left the station” ...


2 posted on 06/28/2018 6:35:04 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.

They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.

In this critical moment in our history we will certainly lose the trust and respect of the world if we just abandon those fundamental principles which guided the men and women who built the greatness of this country and Commonwealth.”

EGAD - Her subjects would depose her if she gave this speech today!!!!


3 posted on 06/28/2018 6:35:57 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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thanks, I was wondering why she seemed to be saying it was a newer thing for her to be televised into their homes.


4 posted on 06/28/2018 6:45:17 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

As a proud and grateful American with roots to colonial times, I can yet say unabashedly that Elizabeth is an admirable and gracious lady, and that the world has been a bit better place for having had her in it.


5 posted on 06/28/2018 6:45:51 PM PDT by tomkat
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Bookmark


6 posted on 06/28/2018 6:46:24 PM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: tomkat
As a proud and grateful American with roots to colonial times, I can yet say unabashedly that Elizabeth is an admirable and gracious lady, and that the world has been a bit better place for having had her in it.

Ditto.

7 posted on 06/28/2018 6:48:02 PM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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Bump


8 posted on 06/28/2018 6:49:09 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: tomkat

She’s the last of the good royals. Once she’s gone, you can pretty much shut the whole thing down.


9 posted on 06/28/2018 6:57:27 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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It’d be hard to argue with that assertion.


10 posted on 06/28/2018 7:01:40 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If England did have the royals could there have ever been Monty Python?


11 posted on 06/28/2018 7:02:00 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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Didn’t?


12 posted on 06/28/2018 7:16:11 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: tomkat
Have you ever read the little booklet Treetops by Jim Corbett, the famous Tiger hunter in India, about the night Elizabeth's Father died and she became Queen?
13 posted on 06/28/2018 7:20:43 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
"But it is not the new inventions which are the difficulty. The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.
They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint."

I wonder if she was thinking such things while giving Knighthood to the purveyors of permissiveness...8:}

14 posted on 06/28/2018 7:22:51 PM PDT by AwesomePossum
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Only about a hundred years after Queen Victoria wanted such a contraption created so she could address her subjects.


15 posted on 06/28/2018 7:27:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I love her and her deep spirit and commitment. God bless the Queen!


16 posted on 06/28/2018 7:28:11 PM PDT by pke
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The Mohammedans and Diversity Deviants are steering the royals in that direction already.

The younger royals’ behavior is a case of both, aided by the blindness they have to the consequences of their actions.
Meghan Markle is a case of the latter - where the wedding was stuffed full of Diversity Candidates and their attendant causes.


17 posted on 06/28/2018 7:51:50 PM PDT by setha (England: Once great, now lost to the Diversity Deviants & Mohammedans.)
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Yes, and dunderhead Charles is a flaming Leftist. Yet Will and Kate will be King and Queen someday and they seem to be grounded in family values and conservstive principles......unless I am totally misreading them both.


18 posted on 06/28/2018 8:00:44 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

No, I haven’t, but just did a search and found it here: https://archive.org/details/TreeTops1955

Will give it a go over the weekend .. thanks -)


19 posted on 06/28/2018 8:01:26 PM PDT by tomkat
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She’s the last of the good royals.

If she were smart she'd see to it that Chuckie is squeezed out of the line of succession. He is nothing more than a blithering idiot.

20 posted on 06/28/2018 8:16:26 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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