Stone of Destiny (2011)
“I do not think we were at all presumptuous in what we were trying to do. In the space of a few short hours we planned to show to the English government that there was a limit to their domination of Scotland; we planned also to show to the world that Scotland was awake again, and above all we wished to give to the Scottish people a symbol of their liberty.
With our total ages little more than half the age of any single senior politician, we hoped to do something that might earn a place in the hi...story books, and would almost certainly earn us an English jail-room. So what? It has been pointed out to me that many of the minor events that have gone to make Scottish history have been carried through by young men and women. It will be a bad day for any country when its young sit at home and do as their elders tell them. It will be even worse, and the end of all our freedoms, for the old as well as the young, when youngsters of conscience are afraid of the police.
From the beginning, we accepted that the police would inevitably catch up with us.MoreLess
With our total ages little more than half the age of any single senior politician, we hoped to do something that might earn a place in the hi...story books, and would almost certainly earn us an English jail-room. So what? It has been pointed out to me that many of the minor events that have gone to make Scottish history have been carried through by young men and women. It will be a bad day for any country when its young sit at home and do as their elders tell them. It will be even worse, and the end of all our freedoms, for the old as well as the young, when youngsters of conscience are afraid of the police.
From the beginning, we accepted that the police would inevitably catch up with us.MoreLess
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