I just listened to "The Feast of Saint Crispin" from Henry V as delivered by Kenneth Brannagh. Five times! Man, that's one powerful delivery.
Anyway, I rememered another one. Just as powerful and striking. It's the Freedom Speech from Braveheart.
Alba gu bra!!!
"Wallace: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.
Young soldier: William Wallace is 7 feet tall.
Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight?
Veteran soldier: Fight? Against that? No, we will run; and we will live.
Wallace: 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 willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.
Wallace and Soldiers: Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever!)"
