“Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow—
Let us do or die!”

— Robert Burns , Scots Wha Hae

Scots Wha Hae, st. 5 (1794)

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“Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow—
Let us do or die!”