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We fight because we are forced to fight, for we, and all Wales, are oppressed, subjugated, despoiled, reduced to servitude by the royal officers and bailiffs so that we feel, and have often so protested to the king, that we are left without any remedy ...
“Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was lured into a trap by some English lords and killed on December 11, 1282 near a place called Cilmeri. Except—” Anna kept her eyes fixed on Llywelyn’s. “Except we just saved his life,” David said.
He didn’t object to the way I’d conducted the fight, but that I’d done it while hot, instead of cold. A leader has to be cold in order to mete out true justice.”
“Killing will change me. It harms the soul of anyone who does it.”
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
All it took to defeat a castle was a traitor within the walls.
“All men must face the time when they see death coming. Each must prepare himself for battle as he will. Some become angry, some empty themselves of all emotion, some never conquer that fear and fight afraid.”
Acknowledge your fear, embrace it even, and you will find you have power over it.
“God put you in my path and has swept you along with me for a reason,” Father said. “I will never turn my back on what He has given me.”
The March was the border region between England and Wales (including the traditional Earldoms of Chester, Shrewsbury, and Hereford, as well as Pembroke and Gloucester). English lords ruled these lands as almost-kings. The Welsh had hated them for centuries.
Wales was only 140 miles long and 50 miles wide in the middle. It was the roughness of the terrain that made Wales difficult to conquer, not its overall size.
Now David understood why the Catholic Church prescribed confession. A man could tell a priest his sins and walk away clean every time.
Everyone should try to fit nine men wearing mail hauberks into a minivan before they die.
The stories of Robin Hood involved bravery and heroism, love and honor, but also the crucial elements of the victorious underdog triumphing over the evil powers that rule the land.
The Robin Hood concept, placed in the hands of a thirteenth century Welshman, however, became truly blood curdling.
this constant killing is something I find hard to accept. I fear for my own soul, and the soul of every man who marches with me.
To take another’s life becomes easier the more one does it and I ask myself what kind of man I will be when it begins to come more easily. Yet, I fear that I cannot become the kind of ruler I need to be, unless it does.”
