Family Quote by Deborah Sampson

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

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

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

— Deborah Sampson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why can I not fight for my country too?

— Deborah Sampson

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