“It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.”

— Isabel II do Reino Unido

1957 Christmas Broadcast; quoted on royal website http://www.royal.gov.uk/imagesandbroadcasts/thequeenschristmasbroadcasts/christmasbroadcasts/christmasbroadcast1957.aspx (25 December 1957)

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