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"I meant to make a new nation, to restore a lost influence, to give twenty millions of Semites the foundation on which to build an inspired dream-place of their national thoughts. So high an aim called out the inherent nobility of their minds, and made them play a generous part in events: but when we won, it was charged against me that the British petrol royalties in Messopotamia were become dubious, and French Colonial policy ruined in the Levant.
I am afraid I hope so. We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives."
T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926)
I wish someone had read this out to in Parliament a few years ago... |
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