I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share
