This contrasts sharply with the motivations espoused by Scotland’s nobles in the fourteenth century, when they succeeded in preserving their country’s independence from English rule. “It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting,” they declared, “but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
这与十四世纪苏格兰贵族所发动的运动截然相反。当时，他们成功地捍卫了国家脱离英格兰统治的独立性。“事实上，我们的斗争不是为了光荣、富有或荣耀，” 他们说，“而只是为了自由，没有哪个诚实的人会放弃自由。”