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" I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. "
William Wallace
King
He
English
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" 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. "
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" Here is no choice but either do or die. "
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" 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.' "
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" I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free! "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
Fair
" 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. "
William Wallace
Face
Myself
Losing
" Every man dies. Not every man really lives. "
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Dies
Every Man
Life
" 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. "
William Wallace
Body
Traitor
Cannot