"His engaging personality won friendships even amongst those who first met him as foes, and to all who met him the news of his death comes as a personal sorrow."

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David Lloyd George, in his message of sympathy to William Cosgrave, Acting Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, in the aftermath of Collins' death. As quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 296