Bruce lives.

And were he extinct, the blood royal flows in too many noble veins in Scotland for me to usurp its rights." "The rights of the crown lie with the only man in Scotland who knows how to defend them! else reason is blind, or the nation abandons its own prerogative.

What we have this moment vowed, is not to be forsworn.

Baliol has abdicated our throne; the Bruce deserted it; all our nobles slept till you awoke; and shall we bow to men who may follow, but will not lead?
No, bravest Wallace, from the moment you drew the first sword for Scotland, you made yourself her lawful king." Wallace turned to the veteran Lord of Loch-awe, who uttered this with a blunt determination that meant to say, the election which had passed should not be recalled.

"I made myself her champion, to fight for her freedom, not my own aggrandizement.