"Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won.
Then never live within the bond of slavery, my son."
"We all end up dead, the question is how and why."
"It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom."
"Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's daughters and sons are yours no more.
Tell them Scotland is free."
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
"Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade all of that from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives,
but they'll never take our freeeedoooomm. "
-- William Wallace
威廉華萊士（1272-1304）是蘇格蘭的民族英雄，一生追尋自由，並且至死不渝，死時年僅32歲，今天，人們仍然可以在蘇格蘭很多地方看到威廉華萊士的紀念碑，而最著名的是在史特林堡的華萊士紀念碑。華萊士作為一個民族英雄，他被塑造成了各種各樣威武的形象，儘管他只活了32歲，在蘇格蘭我們還不時可以看到白髮銀鬚的華萊士畫像，作為蘇格蘭民族精神的象徵，他永遠活在蘇格蘭人民的心中。
今天世人知道這號人物，應該歸功於梅爾吉伯遜主演的『英雄本色』，我在愛丁堡藝術節的皇家哩大道目睹街頭藝人模仿電影裡梅爾吉伯遜的裝扮，把自己的臉上塗得藍藍的，頗有特色，到了史特林堡，更是得到城堡門口的華萊士雕像前朝聖一番!
