Favorite Braveheart Quotes
They are saying goodbye in their own way. Playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes.
Argyle Wallace
Royal Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word.
William Wallace: [last line he is able to speak before he dies, screaming] FREEEEE-DOMMMMMM!
It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom.
William Wallace
Every man dies, not every man really lives.
William Wallace
Royal Magistrate: A most excellent idea, sire.
Longshanks: Is it?
Lower your flags and march straight back to England, stopping at every home to beg forgiveness for a hundred years of theft, rape, and murder. Do this and your men shall live. Do it not, and every one of you will die today.
William Wallace
Hamish: What in the hell are the Irish doing fighting with the English?
Stephen: I wouldn't worry about them. Like I said, it's my island.
William Wallace: Your island?
Stephen: MY ISLAND. Yup.
There's a difference between us. You think the people of this land 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.
William Wallace
It's our wits that make us men.
Malcolm Wallace
Whom do I send? Not my gentle son. The mere sight of him would only encourage an enemy to take over the whole country.
Longshanks
Young William: I can fight.
Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.
Robert the Bruce: Lands, titles, men, power... nothing.
Robert's Father: Nothing?
Robert the Bruce: I have nothing. Men fight for me because if they do not, I throw them off my land and I starve their wives and children. Those men who bled the ground red at Falkirk fought for William Wallace. He fights for something that I never had. And I took it from him, when I betrayed him. I saw it in his face on the battlefield and it's tearing me apart.
Robert's Father: All men betray. All lose heart.
Robert the Bruce: I don't want to lose heart. I want to believe as he does.
