“The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.”
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
