"Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth."
— Joan of Arc

January 1, 1970

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"Et dixit quod dictum parvorum puerorum est quod aliquando homines bene suspenduntur pro dicendo veritatem, And she said that it was a saying of small boys that sometimes men are well hanged for speaking truth." (Trial Transcript, Session Three: February 24, 1431.)