George Buchanan Quotes

“There is a definite linkage between the Humanist legacy and the vernacular movement, in the sense that those scholars who did most to preserve the prestige of Buchanan as a classic text for Latin classes in Scotland were also the same men who did most to encourage the idea of the Scottish tongue as being as suitable as a vehicle for classic poetry as any other modern language.”
― George Elder Davie, The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century

“Well, George Buchanan was a bit of a romancer, there's no denying; he gave Scotland the credit of being a nation long after we ceased to be one... who are we to mock George Buchanan?”
― Ann Scott-Moncrieff, Chapman 47-48: Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff