Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
JOAN OF ARCThe poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
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Settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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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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I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
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Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
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What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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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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I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
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You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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