Queen Elizabeth Country

Famous quotes containing the words queen, elizabeth and/or country:

    I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    Then hail! thou noble conquerer!
    That, when tyranny oppressed,
    Hewed for our fathers from the wild
    A land wherein to rest.
    —Mary Elizabeth Hewitt (b. 1818)

    As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.
    William Cobbett (1762–1835)