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The
Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.
Quia
quamdiu Centum ex nobis viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum
dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari. Non enim propter gloriam,
diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo
quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.
...for, as long as
but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any
conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for
glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for
freedom .... for that alone, which no honest man gives up but
with life itself.