...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because if he should pass without my knowledge, I promise you that I will have [your] head removed. |
Act, and God will act |
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. |
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. |
Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince? |
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast. |
Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! |
I am not afraid…I was born to do this. |
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. |
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. |
It scares me, because if they can do this to Kamehameha Schools, what power do we have? |
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. |
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. |
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. |
That is far too long, for her, for us and especially for a country that prides itself on exporting its belief in a free press to the rest of the world. |