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[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)

[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'

[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Loyalty is the cardinal virtue

MONARCHIST QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“…Loyalty is the cardinal virtue -- loyalty to God and to the Queen; loyalty to our own British institutions of justice, freedom and parliamentary democracy, loyalty to one’s job. For nations, no less than individuals, are members of one another, and together they must make war -- not on each other, for that road leads to hell, but on the evils that beset us all -- injustice, disease, poverty and above all, apathy….

Democracy is of all forms of government the most difficult to work, and the most easily misunderstood. It is far from perfect; what system derived from fallible man is not? But we in the British Commonwealth believe that it is the best yet devised, for with all its faults, it is intended to secure for every man justice, freedom, and a share of the government of his country.

Of these three great pillars of our Constitution, our beloved Queen is the living symbol, and in this fine gathering in her honour, you demonstrate not only your loyalty to Her Majesty, but also to the things which she represents -- things intangible and ancient, yet all powerful and all-pervading where people of British stock are living.

Old names like Wat Tyler, Cramner and John Hampden, old titles like Magna Carta and the Petition of Right -- those are the principles which join us together, and in defence of which, twice in my generation, the Commonwealth has sprung to arms.

And so may the Queen’s blessing and the Queen’s peace shine upon New Zealand as she goes forward -- two races but one people -- growing yearly in size and stature, and upholding in this lonely and lovely corner of the world the great things which are a part of our common British heritage.

-- His Excellency The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Cobham,
Governor-General of New Zealand, 1957-1962.
Speech at Wellington Town Hall, September 5, 1957

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