20 Deborah Sampson Quotes To Inspire You
Looking for famous quotes by Deborah Sampson? We have rounded up the best collection of Deborah Sampson quotes, sayings, proverbs, (with images and pictures) to inspire you.
Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827), better known as Deborah Sampson, was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Deborah Sampson Quotes
- “Why can I not fight for my country too?” – Deborah Sampson
- “As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.” – Deborah Sampson, The Female Review
- “Such is my experience – not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!” – Deborah Sampson
- “I had less dread of receiving half a dozen more balls than the penetrating glance of his eye.” – Deborah Sampson, The Female Review
- “My companions taxed me with presumption and folly, but I was determined, then and always, not to be a coward.” – Deborah Sampson, The Female Review
- “O Woman! Thy smile is more powerful than the conqueror’s sword. Thy sway is mightier than the monarch’s sceptre.”” – Deborah Sampson, The Female Review
- “Must I forever counteract inclination and stay within the compass of the smoke of my own chimney?” – Deborah Sampson, A Heroine of the American Revolution
- “As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.” – 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 derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.” – 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 suitable impression on you – and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.” – Deborah Sampson
- “If any imagine that in my situation nothing short of a continued miracle could have kept me unpolluted, I must content myself with the inward satisfaction which conscious purity and virtue always afford.” – Deborah Sampson, The Female Review
- “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 all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.” – 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 swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!” – Deborah Sampson
- “Your Memorialist has made some Application to receive pay for her services in the Army, but being Female, & not knowing the proper steps to be taken to get pay for her services, has hitherto not received one farthing.” – Deborah Sampson, Petition to the Legislature of Massachusetts
- “What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to inexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?” – 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 acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives – Freedom and Independence!” – Deborah Sampson
- “Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control – I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.” – Deborah Sampson
- “On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlors.” – 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 of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.” – 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, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpracticed even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?” – 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 rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!” – Deborah Sampson
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