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"John Murtagh - Lochlan"
"David O'Hara - Stephen of Ireland"
"Ian Bannen - Bruce's father"
"Seán McGinley - MacClannough"
"Brian Cox - Argyle Wallace"
"Sean Lawlor - Malcolm Wallace"
"Sandy Nelson - John Wallace"
"Stephen Billington - Phillip"
"John Kavanagh - Craig"
"Alun Armstrong - Mornay"
"I am William Wallace! The rest of you will be spared. Go back to England, and tell them there, that Scotland's daughters and her sons are yours no more! Tell them Scotland is free!"
"I'm so afraid. Give me the strength to die well."
"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."
"Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing."
"I gave Mornay double his lands in Scotland, matching estates in England. Lochlan turned for... for much less."
"Bring me Wallace, alive if possible, dead ... just as good."
"Someday, you will be king, at least try to act like one!"
"The trouble with Scotland...is that it's full of Scots!"
"I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. The King of Scotland had died without a son and the King of England, a cruel pagan known as Edward the Longshanks, claimed the throne of Scotland for himself. Scotland's nobles fought him, and fought each other, over the crown. So Longshanks invited them to talks of truce — no weapons, one page only. Among the farmers of that shire was Malcolm Wallace, a commoner with his own lands. He had two sons, John and William."
"Many years later, Edward the Longshanks, King of England, supervised the wedding of his eldest son, who would succeed him to the throne. As bride for his son, Longshanks had chosen the daughter of his rival: the King of France. It was widely whispered, that for the princess to conceive, Longshanks would have to do the honors himself. That may have been what he had in mind all along."
"After the beheading, William Wallace's body was torn to pieces. His head was set on London Bridge, his arms and legs sent to the four corners of Britain as a warning. It did not have the effect that Longshanks planned. And I, Robert the Bruce, rode out to pay homage to the armies of the English King and accept his endorsement of my crown."
"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it."
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
"What gives men the will to fight hard...the passion to bleed long...the strength to die well?"
"His passion captivated a queen. His courage inspired a nation. His heart defied an empire."
"In a land of timeless beauty, William Wallace was a man of peace. But when a ruthless king threatened his home, and murdered the woman he loved, William Wallace was driven to war...and to win for his people something they never dreamed of having. Their own country. (from theatrical trailer)"
"Who does history remember? Those who beg for mercy? Or those who bleed for freedom?"
"To dwell in the shadow of a crown is not to truly live."
"What could drive a man to revolt against a kingdom...and what sort of people would fight beside such a man?"
"Nations rally not behind titles...but alongside courage."
"Mel Gibson - William Wallace"
"Sophie Marceau - Princess Isabella of France"
"Angus Macfadyen - Robert the Bruce"
"Patrick McGoohan - King Edward "Longshanks""
"Catherine McCormack - Murron MacClannough"
"Brendan Gleeson - Hamish"
"Peter Hanly - Prince Edward"
"James Cosmo - Campbell"
"Ja, sie mögen uns das Leben nehmen, aber niemals nehmen sie uns unsere Freiheit."
"Wenn ein Ire jemanden sucht, der ihm gleichwertig ist, dann muss er wohl zu Gott reden."
"Die Geschichtsschreiber aus England werden mich einen Lügner nennen, aber Geschichte wird von denen geschrieben, die Helden gehängt haben."
"Das Problem an Schottland ist, dass es voller Schotten ist."
"Sie sagen auf ihre Weise Lebewohl. Sie spielen die geächteten Melodien auf den geächteten Instrumenten."
"Hauptdarsteller"
"Erschienen: 1995"
"Genre: Kriegsdrama, Action, Biography"
"Drehbuch: Randall Wallace"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.