Freedom Quotes

A collection of historic quotes celebrating Scottish nationalism | Saor Alba

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Robert Burns (1791) on the signing of the Act of Union

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"O would, or I had seen the day 
That Treason thus could sell us, 
My auld grey head had lien in clay, 
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace! 
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I'll mak this declaration; 
We're bought and sold for English gold,
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!"

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"I hold that the British empire is the greatest menace to the human race... The best interest of humanity can therefore be served by the break-up of the British empire. The Irish, the Indians and others are playing their part. Why ought not the Scottish?" - John Maclean, 1922

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"We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs" - Claim of Right, 1989

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"It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies" - Hugh MacDiarmid, c.1931