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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
— Mark Twain
She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.
— Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is—a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
— Mark Twain
Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. It was urged that they were most probably combatants in disguise, but she said: 'As to that, how can any tell? They wear the livery of God, and if even one of these wears it rightfully, surely it were better that all the guilty should escape than that we have upon our hands the blood of that innocent man. I will lodge them where I lodge, and feed them, and sent them away in safety.
— Mark Twain
To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence
— Mark Twain
Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.
— Mark Twain
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.