Portal:Scotland/Selected quote/Week 26, 2012

... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ...
 * &mdash; Charles Rennie Mackintosh

... 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 ...
 * &mdash; Declaration of Arbroath