30 Inspirational Quotes By William Wallace That Prove He Was A Braveheart
Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.
Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.
Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.
I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!
I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.
It's better to die than to never really have lived.
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
The god that you believe in, and the god that I believe in, maybe different gods; however, the God that made you, and the God that made me, They are the same God.
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
All men die, but not all men really live.
There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it
As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
Here is no choice but either do or die.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
As governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies.
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!
O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I
Return to your friends and tell them that we came here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, and determined to avenge our own wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'
I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.
