George VI

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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
Collection: Wall
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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
Collection: War
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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
Collection: Gone
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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 VI
Collection: Ideas