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Elizabeth II: We lost the...

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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Source: In Philadelphia on six-day Bicentennial visit; in Newsweek, 19 Jul 1976.
-- Elizabeth II, (Apr 21 1926-____), British ruler; She has been Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952.


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