I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy. — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent,… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
