The Text of The Declaration of Arbroath 1320: "Yet if he should give up
what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King
of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out
as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other
man who was well able to defend us our King; 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."
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