Winston Churchill on T. E. Lawrence
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“I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time... We shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will live in the annals of war... It will live in the legends of Arabia.”
At a memorial for T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill lauded Lawrence's seeming disregard for worldly ambitions, suggesting such detachment inspires both awe and apprehension in society.
“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.”