I would have gone nevertheless.
JOAN OF ARCFour things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orleans.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!
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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,
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[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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