Braveheart “Freedom” Speech Transcript – William Wallace

Braveheart “Freedom” Speech Transcript – William Wallace

Mel Gibson played William Wallace in the 1995 film Braveheart, where he gave the iconic “Freedom” speech. Read the speech transcript here.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):

The Almighty says this must be a fashionable fight. It's drawn the finest people.

Speaker 2 (00:11):

Where does thy salute?

William Wallace (00:12):

For presenting yourselves on this battlefield, I give you thanks.

Speaker 2 (00:16):

This is our army. To join it, do you give homage?

William Wallace (00:19):

I give homage to Scotland, and if this is your army, why does it go?

Speaker 4 (00:27):

We didn't come here to fight for them!

Army (00:29):

[Inaudible 00:00:33].

Speaker 6 (00:35):

Oh, the English are too many!

Army (00:36):

[Inaudible 00:00:36].

William Wallace (00:36):

Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.

Speaker 6 (00:50):

William Wallace is seven feet tall.

William Wallace (00:52):

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.

Army (01:02):

[Inaudible 00:01:03].

William Wallace (01:07):

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 will you do without freedom? Will you fight?

Army (01:35):

[Inaudible 00:01:36].

Speaker 7 (01:36):

Fight, against that? No! We will run, and we will live.

William Wallace (01:45):

Aye. Fight, and you may die. Run, and you'll live, at least a while. 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?

Army (02:17):

[Inaudible 00:02:20].

William Wallace (02:42):

Alba gu bràth!

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