💬 Quotes

"A builder is a man who tries to turn a vision into stone, knowing full well that time will eventually turn it back to dust."

"Whatever happens to me, you must live. You must go on. That is the only promise I need from you."

"My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!"

"It's a sad thing to see a man o' sense and discretion stickin' up for the king's reid-coats, when the hanks o' yarn are a' tanglin' the wrang way."

"Men will risk collision with society and law for sake of wealth, but it is a heavier crime to steal a man's good name and peace of mind."

"A man who has nae sense o' what is right and wrang, except what the law tells him, is but an ill kind of a creature at best."

"It is better to be the head of alizard than the tail of a lion, and upon that motto I have built my fortunes."

"Time and tide roll on, and all things pass away: the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."

"It is not he who best knows the manners of the times, who is most capable of forming a judgment on the great events of history."

"A great work is not to be hurried; and as we cannot always be grave and solemn, we must sometimes allow ourselves to loiter."

"The enthusiasm of the horseman was matched by that of the rider; both followed the impulse of a hot blood and an active imagination."

"Men of great parts are not always the best calculators of the probabilities of human affairs; their own views are too vast for the scale."

"A tale of woe, such as now oppresses my memory, has its own peculiar moral, teaching us the instability of human grandeur."

"Time and change have blotted out many a proud distinction, and-what is perhaps a better comfort-have subdued many a rancorous feud."

"A man who is ready to give his life for his country and his faith has already conquered the fear of death."

"It is better to fall fighting bravely in defense of our homes than to live as slaves to the heathen."

"Strategy and forethought will ever prevail against mere brute force and numbers, even when the odds seem overwhelmingly against us."

"The sea is our natural defense, but if we would rule it or keep it free, we must learn to meet the rovers upon their own element."

"True courage is not the blind rashness of the untried warrior, but the steady resolution of one who sees the danger clearly and yet goes forward."

"Even in the darkest hour, when crowns are lost and kingdoms overrun, a steadfast heart and a righteous cause will find a way to salvation."