Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

We Americans of today, together with our allies, are passing through a period of supreme test. It is a test of our courage - of our resolve - of our wisdom - our essential democracy.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all other.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.