William Wallace Quotes

We all end up dead, it’s just a question of how and why.[to Robert]

In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets, they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.[closing narration]

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don’t follow titles, they follow courage.[to Robert]

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.

Now is our chance. Now. If we join, we can win. If we win, well then we’ll have what none of us have ever had before. A country of our own.[to Robert]

It’s all for nothing if you don’t have freedom.

If I swear to him, then all that I am is dead already.[to Isabelle]

I’m so afraid. Give me the strength to die well.[praying before his execution]

I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. You’ve come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do without freedom?

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.[Princess Isabelle: I understand you have recently been given the rank of knight.]

Here are Scotland’s terms. Lower your flags and march straight back to England, stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for a hundred years of theft, rape, and murder. Do that, and your men shall live. Do it not, and every one of you will die today.[to Cheltham]