Quotes by Joan Arc

• 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, I would have gone nevertheless.
• 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. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... 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.
• One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
• 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.
• I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
• I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
• If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
• I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
• Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
• Act, and God will act.