I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. — 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
