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No. I’, <i>The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. VI. A.D. 1702–1714</i> (1806), column 143</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I do not discuss the Scotch cases. They are not binding on us as authorities, though of the greatest service, as containing the opinions and arguments of able and accomplished <a href="/wiki/Lawyers" title="Lawyers">lawyers</a>. <ul><li>Bramwell, L.J., <i>Johnson v. Raylton</i> (1881), L. R. 7 Q. B. 449; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 222</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that the intelligence of the people in Scotland is superior to the intelligence of the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">people in England</a>… I told them that they were the people who should have repeal of the Union; for that, if they are separate from <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, they might have a <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> wholly popular and <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">intelligent</a>, to a degree which I believe does not exist in any other country on the face of the earth. However, I believe they will be disposed to press us on, and make us become more and more intelligent; and we may receive benefits from our contact with them, even though, for some ages to come, our connexion with them may be productive of <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a> to themselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Bright" title="John Bright">John Bright</a>, speech in Manchester (January 1843), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, <i>The Life of John Bright</i> (1913), pp. 84-85</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And if you’re like me and a million more people who are convinced that the case for cooperation is greater than any case put for separation then I say to you: hold your heads high. Show dignity and pride. Be confident. Let us have confidence that our values are indeed the values of the majority of the people of Scotland. That our principles of sharing and cooperation are far better and mean more to them than separation and splitting apart. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>, Speech for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Together" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Better Together">Better Together</a> rally in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Glasgow">Glasgow</a> on the eve of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendum,_2014" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Scottish independence referendum, 2014">Scottish independence referendum</a>, 17 September 2014</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!<br /> For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;<br />Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil<br /> Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, <i>The Cotter's Saturday Night</i> (1786), Stanza 20.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My heart's in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish Highlands">Highlands</a>, my heart is not here;<br />My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, "My Heart's in the Highlands", line 1 (1790)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C">C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>From the lone shieling of the misty <a href="/wiki/Islands" title="Islands">island</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mountain" title="Mountain">Mountains</a> divide us, and the waste of <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">seas</a> –<br />Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish Highlands">Highland</a>,<br />And we in <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> behold the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrides" class="extiw" title="w:Hebrides">Hebrides</a>!<br />Fair these broad meads, these hoary <a href="/wiki/Woods" class="mw-redirect" title="Woods">woods</a> are grand;<br />But we are exiles from our fathers' land. <ul><li>"Canadian Boat Song", an anonymous poem first published in <i>Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine</i>, September 1829, and ostensibly translated from the Gaelic. There has been much debate as to the poem's authorship. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol06/dowler.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[I am] fast becoming a <i><a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriot</a></i> of the most decided stamp. Scornfully as I used to speak and think of Scotland in my hours of bitterness and irritation, I never fail to stand up manfully in defence of it thro' thick and thin, whenever a renegade Scot takes upon him to abuse it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, Letter to Thomas Murray (24 August 1824), quoted in Fred Kaplan, <i>Thomas Carlyle: A Biography</i> (1983), p. 100</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No one in England has ever wished to prevent the fullest expression of Scottish or <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Welsh</a> traditions and customs. Indeed, their manifestation is regarded with pleasure and pride by the English people. We have reaped great advantages from this tolerant mood. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, 'Yugoslavia and Europe' (29 October 1937), quoted in Winston Churchill, <i>Step by Step, 1936–1939</i> (1939; 1947), p. 169</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="D">D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Look at England, whose mighty power is now felt, and for centuries has been felt, all around the world. It is worthy of special remark, that precisely those parts of that proud island which have received the largest and most diversified populations, are to day the parts most distinguished for <a href="/wiki/Industry" title="Industry">industry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Enterprise">enterprise</a>, <a href="/wiki/Invention" title="Invention">invention</a> and general <a href="/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)" title="Enlightenment (spiritual)">enlightenment</a>. In Wales, and in the Highlands of Scotland the boast is made of their pure blood, and that they were never conquered, but no man can contemplate them without wishing they had been conquered. They are far in the rear of every other part of the English realm in all the comforts and conveniences of life, as well as in mental and physical development. Neither <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> nor <a href="/wiki/Learning" title="Learning">learning</a> descends to us from the mountains of Wales or from the Highlands of Scotland. The ancient <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">Briton</a>, whom <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> would not have as a <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slave</a>, is not to be compared with the round, burly, amplitudinous Englishman in many of his qualities of desirable manhood. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, <i>Our Composite Nationality</i> (1869)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From its destitution of trees, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" class="extiw" title="w:Scotland">Scotland</a> was once a by-word; now it is a garden of beauty. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/self-made-men/">"Self-Made Men"</a> (1872)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>From the time of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Briton" class="extiw" title="w:The North Briton">North Briton</a></i> of the unprincipled <a href="/wiki/John_Wilkes" title="John Wilkes">Wilkes</a>, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a> quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a>-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Galt" class="mw-redirect" title="John Galt">John Galt</a> <i>Ringan Gilhaize</i> (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823) vol. 3, p. 313</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I feel with a peculiar sympathy all that relates to Scotland. The natives of Scotland, and all those who have Scotch blood in their veins—particularly if, like me, they only have Scotch blood in their veins—are not apt to forget the country from which they sprang. They know its great qualities. They know the solidity of its character. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a>, Speech in Westminster Palace Hotel (23 May 1878), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (24 May 1878), p. 12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For real dangers the people of England and Scotland form perhaps the bravest people in the world. At any rate, there is no people in the world to whom they are prepared to surrender or to whom one would ask them to surrender the palm of <a href="/wiki/Bravery" title="Bravery">bravery</a>. But I am sorry to say there is another aspect of the case, and for imaginary dangers there is no people in the world who in a degree is anything like the English in regard to being the victim of absurd and idle fancies. It is notorious all over the world. The <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a>, we think, are an excitable people; but the French stand by in amazement at the passion of fear and fury into which an Englishman will get him when he is dealing with an imaginary danger. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a>, Speech in Liverpool (28 June 1886), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (29 June 1886), p. 11</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]he practice of <a href="/wiki/Thrift" class="mw-redirect" title="Thrift">thrift</a> is not one of the most distinguishing characteristics of the people of this country. It exists more beyond the border, in Scotland, undoubtedly, than it does in England, but it is increasing, and increasing very much, happily, in England itself. I rejoice to say that it has been in the power of the State to effect this by judicious legislation—not by what is called "grandmotherly legislation", of which I for one have a great deal of suspicion—but by legislation thoroughly sound in principle—namely, that legislation which like your savings bank, helps the people by enabling the people to help themselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a>, Speech to the annual meeting of the depositors in the provident savings banks connected with the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Railway Companies in the City Terminus Hotel (18 June 1890), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (19 June 1890), p. 6</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="H">H</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>They wanted to see in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> a strong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" class="extiw" title="w:Labour Party (UK)">Labour party</a>, which would be able to compel the <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">employer class</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">landlord class</a> to take their hands off the life of the nation and enable the <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working people</a> to have a chance to live. They knew the terrible curse landlordism had been to Ireland; it had been the same in Scotland. It had been a curse all the time and always, and they wanted to get rid of it. They could only do so by having Labour members in Parliament to fight the cause of the common people. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keir_Haride&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keir Haride (page does not exist)">Keir Haride</a>, Speech in Ayr to the Glasgow branch of the National Union of Dock Labourers (25 August 1906), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (27 August 1906), p. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Surely we had got beyond that stage of civilisation as represented by <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> and the age of <a href="/wiki/Barbarian" title="Barbarian">barbarism</a>. What was the deduction from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Haldane,_1st_Viscount_Haldane" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane">Mr. Haldane</a>'s observations? That the mass of the people in the industrial army corresponded to the rank and file in the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">military Army</a> were to have no opinions, no <a href="/wiki/Individuality" title="Individuality">individuality</a>, no will of their own, no right to think, and no power to act, that they were to be obedient and in subjection to those placed in power and authority over them. That kind of <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a> might do for the military <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudalism</a> of <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, but it was alien and contrary to the freedom-loving spirit of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scotland</a>, which inspired the <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poems</a> of Robert Burns. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Keir_Hardie" title="Keir Hardie">Keir Hardie</a>, Speech in the town hall of Darvel, Ayrshire (12 January 1907), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (14 January 1907), p. 11</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Of course, Scotsmen are not foreigners. They are fellow-subjects of ours, and they are in the same position as any other fellow-subjects, with the important exception that their system of jurisprudence differs in very important particulars from ours . . . and to call a Scotsman an English subject is a perfect absurdity. <ul><li>Higby, L.J., <i>Mac Iver v. Burns</i> (1895), L. R. 2 C. D. [1895], p. 637; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 221-222</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I thought that I was the only <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">historian</a>, that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tory" class="mw-redirect" title="Tory">Tory</a>, churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man, who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford" title="Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford">Earl of Strafford</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a>, 'My Own Life' (1776), quoted in David Hume, <i>Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (1741–1777)</i>, ed. Eugene Miller (1985), p. xxxvii</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I">I</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It does not happen often in Scotland that leaders of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>, the Free Church, and the Evangelical Alliance join forces to protest against the government.<br />In fact, it never happened before. When they are even joined by <a href="/wiki/Mr._Bean" title="Mr. Bean">Mr. Bean</a>, the government should start being concerned. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Massimo_Introvigne" title="Massimo Introvigne">Massimo Introvigne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitterwinter.org/why-are-mr-bean-and-christian-churches-opposing-scotlands-new-hate-speech-law/">"Why Are Mr. Bean, and Christian Churches, Opposing Scotland’s New Hate Speech Law?"</a>, <i>Bitter Winter</i> (February 18, 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J">J</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islands_of_Scotland" class="extiw" title="w:A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland">A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland</a></i> (1775)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a> in conversation with <a href="/wiki/Hester_Thrale" title="Hester Thrale">Mrs. Thrale</a>, <a href="/wiki/April_8" title="April 8">April 8</a>, <a href="/wiki/1778" class="mw-disambig" title="1778">1778</a>. Cited from <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Samuel_Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:Life of Samuel Johnson">Life of Johnson</a></i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 914</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is not then from the alienated affections of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America" class="extiw" title="w:British America">America</a>, that you [<a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a>] can reasonably look for assistance; still less from the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">people of England</a>, who are actually contending for their rights, and in this great question, are parties against you. You are not however, destitute of every appearance of support: you have all the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jacobitism">Jacobites</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonjuring_schism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nonjuring schism">Non-jurors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholics</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tories" class="mw-redirect" title="Tories">Tories</a> of this country, and all Scotland, without exception. Considering from what family you are descended, the choice of your friends has been singularly directed; and truly, Sir, if you had not lost the <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> interest of England, I should admire your dexterity in turning the hearts of your enemies. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Junius" title="Junius">Junius</a>, No. 35 (19 December 1769)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L">L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As I crossed a few hours ago from Scotland I said to myself,—"The majority there are Radicals. They are going to vote next week for the Home Rule Bill. What would they say to a proposal which was to subject them to the same kind of <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a> or the same kind of men to which, for the sake of party interests, they are willing to sacrifice you?" They would never accept it. I know Scotland well, and I believe that, rather than submit to such a fate, the Scottish people would face a second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bannockburn" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Battle of Bannockburn">Bannockburn</a> or a second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Flodden_Field" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Battle of Flodden Field">Flodden</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bonar_Law" title="Bonar Law">Bonar Law</a>, Speech in Belfast (8 April 1912), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (9 April 1912), p. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Clydeside" class="extiw" title="w:Red Clydeside">Clyde boys</a> were pretty hard on me today. But it's fine to hear your Glasgow accent. It's like a sniff of the air of Scotland in the musty atmosphere of this place. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bonar_Law" title="Bonar Law">Bonar Law</a>'s remarks to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kirkwood" class="extiw" title="w:David Kirkwood">David Kirkwood</a>, quoted in David Kirkwood, <i>My Life of Revolt</i> (1935), pp. 201–202</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">B[ritish] E[mpire]</a> is a sisterhood of <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a>—the greatest in the world. Look at this table: There sits <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>—English and <a href="/wiki/Boer" title="Boer">Boer</a>; there sits <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>—<a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">French</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Canadians" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish Canadians">Scotch</a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Canadians" class="extiw" title="w:English Canadians">English</a>; there sits <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, representing many races—even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maori" class="extiw" title="w:Maori">Maoris</a>; there sits <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a>; here sit the representatives of England, Scotland & Wales; all we ask you to do is to take your place in this sisterhood of free nations. It is an invitation, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera" title="Éamon de Valera">Mr. De Valera</a>: we invite you here. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a>, Remarks to Frances Stevenson as recorded in her diary (14 July 1921), quoted in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), <i>Lloyd George: A Diary</i> (1971), pp. 227-228</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M">M</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The rose of all the world is not for me.<br />I want for my part<br />Only the little white rose of Scotland<br />That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid" title="Hugh MacDiarmid">Hugh MacDiarmid</a>, <i>The Little White Rose</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>NEVER forget that we are the bastard people of a mongrel nation. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McIllvaney" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:William McIllvaney">William McIllvaney</a>, 1992 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jul/04/race.uk">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[Upon King <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_England" title="James I of England">James VI</a>'s coronation as King of Scots] Sirrah! Ye are God's vassal; there are twa kingdoms in Scotland; there is <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> the King of the Kirk, whose subject King James VI is, and of whose <a href="/wiki/Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom">kingdom</a> he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member. <ul><li>Andrew Melville in Klieforth and Munro's <i>The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights: A History of Liberty and Freedom from the Ancient Celts to the New Millenium</i>, page 199</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was often asked how it was that <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scotland</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democratic</a> country. He believed that the root causes of the spirit of democracy in its truest and highest sense still prevailed and would prevail in Scotland. Some said that the Scottish people were democrats because of <a href="/wiki/John_Knox" title="John Knox">John Knox</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochial_school#Scotland" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Parochial school">parish schools</a>; some said it was due to Burns, who was the truest democrat who ever wrote a verse; some said it was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_polity" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Presbyterian polity">form of ecclesiastical organisation</a>. He would be content with the result that, somehow or other, there was in that part of the island a sort of reservoir of democratic man-to-man feeling which they hardly found in any other part of the United Kingdom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Morley,_1st_Viscount_Morley_of_Blackburn" title="John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn">John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn</a>, Speech in the city hall in Brechin, Montrose Burghs (5 February 1896), quoted in <i>The Times</i> (6 February 1896), p. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The curse of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_literature" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish literature">Scottish literature</a> is the lack of a whole <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a>, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Muir" title="Edwin Muir">Edwin Muir</a>, <i>Scott and Scotland</i> (1936), Introduction.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a>, as far as I can see, is not the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Minister of Scotland">First Minister of Scotland</a> [...] He's become the First Minister of Gaza, or an ambassador for <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza</a>, or something like that. But people like Humza Yousaf, I say it carefully, have infiltrated our system. He does not seem to be much bothered by the situation of the Scottish people, or the people of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow" class="extiw" title="w:Glasgow">Glasgow</a> who have one of the lowest <a href="/wiki/Life_expectancy" title="Life expectancy">life expectancies</a> not just in Britain but anywhere in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. He does not seem to care about that or if he does, he does nothing about it. But my word if you look at his <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a> proclamations … you would think that he was indeed First Minister of Gaza. This is a problem that the Scots must sort out, the Scottish electorate must sort out, indeed the British electorate must sort out. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Murray" title="Douglas Murray">Douglas Murray</a>, From an American video podcast, <i>The Rubin Report</i>, as cited in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/23914039.douglas-murray-slammed-disgusting-attack-humza-yousaf/">"Douglas Murray slammed for 'disgusting' attack on Humza Yousaf"</a>, <i>The National</i> (9 November 2023).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="O">O</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>England may as well dam up the <a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">waters</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Nile" title="Nile">Nile</a>, with bulrushes, as to fetter the step of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>, more proud and firm in this youthful land, than where she treads the sequestered glens of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scotland</a>, or couches herself among the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps" class="extiw" title="w:Alps">magnificent mountains</a> of <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. Arbitrary principles, like those, against which we now contend, have cost <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">one king of England</a> his life, <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">another</a>, his crown — and they may yet cost <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="George III of the United Kingdom">a third</a> his most flourishing <a href="/wiki/Colonies" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonies">colonies</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Otis_Jr." title="James Otis Jr.">James Otis Jr.</a>, As quoted in <i>The Class Book of American Literature</i> (1826) edited by John Frost, Lesson XLIX : Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis i extracted from "The Rebels."</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the late 1800s, <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> had a peaceable bull’s-eye in the northern industrialized countries (<a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">Germany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Countries" class="extiw" title="w:Low Countries">Low Countries</a>), bordered by slightly stroppier <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary" class="extiw" title="w:Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>, surrounded in turn by still more violent <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, and the Slavic countries. Today the peaceable center has swelled to encompass all of Western and Central Europe, but a gradient of <a href="/wiki/Lawlessness" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawlessness">lawlessness</a> extending to <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mountain" title="Mountain">mountainous</a> <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a> is still visible. There are gradients within each of these countries as well: the hinterlands and mountains remained violent long after the <a href="/wiki/Urbanization" title="Urbanization">urbanized</a> and densely <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">farmed</a> centers had calmed down. Clan warfare was endemic to the Scottish highlands until the 18th century, and to <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montenegrins" title="Montenegrins">Montenegro</a>, and other parts of the Balkans until the 20th. It’s no coincidence that the two blood-soaked classics with which I began this book—the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homeric</a> <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poems</a>—came from peoples that lived in rugged <a href="/wiki/Hills" title="Hills">hills</a> and valleys. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Pinker" title="Steven Pinker">Steven Pinker</a>, <i>The Better Angels of Our Nature</i> (2012)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="R">R</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It is by self-reliance, humanly speaking, by the independence which has been the motive and impelling force of our race, that the Scots have thriven in <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, and even in England, where at different times they were banned. As things are we in Scotland do not take much or even ask much from the State, but the State invites us every day to lean upon it... Speaking as a Scotsman to Scotsmen, I plead for our historical character, for the maintenance of those sterling national qualities which have meant so much to Scotland in the past. (Cheers.) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Primrose,_5th_Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery">Lord Rosebery</a>, speech to Glasgow University (12 June 1908), reported in <i>The Times</i> (13 June 1908), p. 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know no other waters to be compared with them;- such streams can only exist under very subtle concurrences of rock and climate. There must be soft rain, not (habitually) tearing the hills down with floods; and the rocks must break irregularly and jaggery. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">John Ruskin</a> The Sounds of Scottish Streams. Fors Clavigera, letter XXXII, August 1873. also John Ruskin, Selected Writings, selected by Kenneth Clarke, page 101, Penguin Classics, 1991</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It is the foundation of my Government's mission to build a modern, compassionate and just society in Scotland. A society where we not only meet our immediate needs, but ensure that all can share in the benefits of prosperity. And a Scotland that is ever conscious of its global responsibilities - promoting <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>, supporting international development and <a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">protecting our environment</a>. Building this society and instilling these values in our population requires the highest standards of teaching in our <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> system - and a strong ethical dimension. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>, Speech on the contribution of faith-based schools at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gov.scot/News/Speeches/Speeches/First-Minister/cardwinlecture">transcript</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you have the majority of a country up to the age of 55 already voting for <a href="/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">independence</a>, then I think the writing's on the wall for Westminster. I think Scots of my generation and above should be looking at themselves in the mirror and wonder if we by majority, as a result of our decision, have actually impeded progress for the next generation, something no generation should do. The destination is pretty certain – we're only now debating the timescale and the method. I'll contribute to that debate, but I think it's time for new <a href="/wiki/Leadership" title="Leadership">leadership</a>. There are a number of political opportunities coming up. For many, many years, a referendum route wasn't the chosen route of the SNP or Scotland. For many years, there was a gradual attitude to independence. You establish a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">parliament</a> and establish successively more powers until you have a situation where you're independent in all but name, and then presumably declare yourself to be independent. Many countries have proceeded through that route – there is a parliamentary route where people can make their voice heard as well – so a referendum is only one of a number of routes. I think that’s the best route. That’s always been my opinion but my opinion is only one of many. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-insists-wrath-khan-4301649">Remarks</a> during a television interview (21 September 2014).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many Britons...feel strongly about something which was once called "the alien wedge". And surely it cannot be doubted, even by those who profess allegiance to the "<a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multicultural</a> society", that our society, unlike <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a>, is not of that kind, and therefore that <a href="/wiki/Immigration" title="Immigration">immigration</a> cannot be an object of merely passive contemplation on the part of the present citizenship. There is perhaps no greater sign of the strength of <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberalism</a> (a strength which issues, not from popular consensus, but from the political power of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_elite" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Liberal elite">liberal elite</a>) than that it has made it impossible for any but the circumlocutory to argue that the English, the Scots and the Welsh have a prior claim to the benefits of the civilization that their ancestors created, which entitles them to reserve its benefits for themselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Scruton" title="Roger Scruton">Roger Scruton</a>, <i>The Meaning of Conservatism: Third Edition</i> (2001), p. 62</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonia" class="extiw" title="w:Caledonia">Caledonia!</a> stern and wild,<br />Meet nurse for a poetic child!<br />Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,<br />Land of the mountain and the flood,<br />Land of my sires! what mortal hand<br />Can e'er untie the filial band,<br />That knits me to thy rugged strand! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lay_of_the_Last_Minstrel" class="extiw" title="w:The Lay of the Last Minstrel">The Lay of the Last Minstrel</a></i> (1805), Canto VI, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century, or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745" class="extiw" title="w:Jacobite rising of 1745">insurrection of the 1745</a> — the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Patriarchy" title="Patriarchy">patriarchal</a> <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of the Highland chiefs — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons — the total eradication of the Jacobite party [...]. [...] This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with it, doubtless, much absurd political prejudice — but also many living examples of singular ad disinterested attachment to the principles of <a href="/wiki/Loyalty" title="Loyalty">loyalty</a> which they received from their fathers, and of old Scottish faith, hospitality, worth, and <a href="/wiki/Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Honour">honour</a>. [...] for the purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I have witnessed the almost total extinction, I have embodied in imaginary scenes [...]. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, <i>Waverley</i> (1814), Chapter LXXII, A postscript, which should have been a preface</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We’re a mongrel nation and proud and the <a href="/wiki/Aryan_race" title="Aryan race">Aryans</a> can fuck off. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Sheppard" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Tommy Sheppard">Tommy Sheppard</a>, MP for Edinburgh East, 2017 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/white-pride-marchers-in-edinburgh-this-weekend-can-fuck-off?utm_term=.ljQvYbElZ#.pdK61Be2R">[3]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It requires a <a href="/wiki/Surgery" title="Surgery">surgical</a> operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith" title="Sydney Smith">Sydney Smith</a>, <i>Lady Holland's Memoir</i> (1855), Volume I, p. 15</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That knuckle-end of England—that land of <a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">Calvin</a>, oat-cakes, and sulphur. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith" title="Sydney Smith">Sydney Smith</a>, <i>Lady Holland's Memoir</i> (1855), Volume II, p. 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Scotland is indefinable; it has no unity except upon the map. Two <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">languages</a>, many dialects, innumerable forms of <a href="/wiki/Piety" title="Piety">piety</a>, and countless local <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriotisms</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prejudice" title="Prejudice">prejudices</a>, part us among ourselves more widely than the extreme east and west of that great continent of <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">America</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=id0NAAAAQAAJ">The Silverado Squatters</a></i>, <i>In the Valley</i>, cap. IV, <i>The Scot Abroad</i>, (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), p. 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe both Scotland and the UK should stay in the <a href="/wiki/EU" class="mw-redirect" title="EU">EU</a>. Scotland benefits from being part of the EU, and the EU benefits from having Scotland a part of it. No <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish National Party">SNP</a> <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">parliamentarian</a> has expressed a desire to campaign for the <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">out campaign</a> - though they are not prevented from doing so. I am determined to make the positive case for continued membership in a reformed EU. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon">Nicola Sturgeon</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-35674306">"Scottish Lib Dem conference: Leader Tim Farron in staunch defence of EU"</a> <i>BBC News</i> (27 February 2016).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I will venture to say, there is no country existing which is at present more flourishing; no people whose general condition is better, or whose rights and liberties are more firmly secured. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilay_Campbell,_Lord_Succoth" class="extiw" title="w:Ilay Campbell, Lord Succoth">Lord Succoth</a>, Lord President, <i>Downie's Case</i> (1794), 24 How. St. Tr. 187; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 222</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There's none more Scots than the Scots abroad. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_the_West" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Spirit of the West">Spirit of the West</a>, "The Old Sod", <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_This_House" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Save This House">Save This House</a></i> (1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="T">T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Political self-government, central and local, was an English invention, imported into Scotland by the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Grey Ministry</a>, but intensely popular in spite of its foreign origin. Although in temper, creed and outlook on life the Scottish people were less submissive than the English, the civil institutions of their country contained in 1830 no elements of popular <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Elections in the United Kingdom">election</a> such as always existed here and there in the south of the island. There was no safety-valve for all that pent <a href="/wiki/Energy" title="Energy">energy</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Bill_1832" class="extiw" title="w:Reform Bill 1832">Reform Bill</a>, in England an evolution, in Scotland was a revolution, veiled in form of law, and the passions aroused over it had been proportionately more fierce. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._M._Trevelyan" title="G. M. Trevelyan">G. M. Trevelyan</a>, <i>British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782–1901)</i> (1922), p. 243</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I can not be a <a href="/wiki/Traitor" class="mw-redirect" title="Traitor">traitor</a>, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he never shall receive it. To the other points whereof I am accused, I freely confess them all. As Governor of my <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Monarchy of the United Kingdom">English King</a>; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. If I or my <a href="/wiki/Soldiers" title="Soldiers">soldiers</a> have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, I repent me of my <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a>; but it is not of <a href="/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" title="Edward I of England">Edward of England</a> I shall ask pardon. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wallace" title="William Wallace">William Wallace</a>, Statement at his trial, rejecting the assertion he was a traitor to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Edward I of England">Edward I of England</a> (23 August 1305), as quoted in <i>Lives of Scottish Worthies</i> (1831) by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 279</li> <li>Variant: <b>I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The side of my family that comes from Scotland, hell, they didn’t even worry about fighting people outside of Scotland. Highlanders and lowlanders just fought the hell out of each other. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wise" class="extiw" title="w:Tim Wise">Tim Wise</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091009155847/http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/137/transcript_137.pdf">The Pathology of Privilege: Racism"</a> (2008), <i>Media Education Foundation</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scotland&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 692-93.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Give me but one hour of Scotland,<br />Let me see it ere I die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Aytoun" class="mw-redirect" title="William E. Aytoun">William E. Aytoun</a>, <i>Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers—Charles Edward at Versailles</i>, line 111.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots<br />Frae Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groat's. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, <i>On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It's guid to be merry and wise,<br /> It's guid to be honest and true,<br />It's guid to support Caledonia's cause,<br /> And bide by the buff and the blue! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, <i>Here's a Health to Them that's Awa'</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [<a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Chapman" title="George Chapman">George Chapman</a>, <i>Eastward Ho</i>, Act III, scene 2. Written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston. James I was offended at the reflexion on Scotchmen and the authors were threatened with imprisonment. Extract now found only in a few editions.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Scots are poor, cries surly English <a href="/wiki/Pride" title="Pride">pride</a>;<br />True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.<br />Are they not then in strictest reason clear,<br />Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Churchill" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Churchill">Charles Churchill</a>, <i>Prophecy of Famine</i>, line 195.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Bowell's <i>Life of Johnson</i>, Volume II, Chapter V. 1763.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Lockier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Francis Lockier (page does not exist)">Francis Lockier</a>, <i>Scotchmen</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now the summer's in prime<br /> Wi' the flowers richly blooming,<br />And the wild mountain thyme<br /> A' the moorlands perfuming.<br />To own dear native scenes<br /> Let us journey together,<br />Where glad innocence reigns<br /> 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Tannahill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Tannahill (page does not exist)">Robert Tannahill</a>, <i>The Braes o' Balquhither</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Walpole" title="Horace Walpole">Horace Walpole</a>, <i>To the Rev. 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