Deborah Sampson Quotes
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!
Gannett, Deborah Sampson. An Address, Delivered with Applause, at the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston. H. Mann, 1802, p. 8.
Turkey under the Ottomans had been an imperialist, expansionist, empire, fighting and ruling over half of Europe and all of the Middle East. Ataturk argued that fighting and taking casualties should only take place to protect the nation’s independence and not to build or maintain an empire.
See Noah Webster and Timothy Pickering for similar positions. The War of 1812 was very unpopular with the New England states. They had the most developed trade with England and were economically injured by the curtailment of that trade. The citizens of Essex wanted to give the State Legislature the most possible moral and political power to negotiate an end to the war.
A group of citizens of Mecklenburgh County, NC gathered together and produced their own “Declaration of Independence” a little over a year before The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. Some people refer to the earlier document as the Mecklenburgh Declaration of Independence. It is not known how much Alexander personally wrote however he signed as the Chairman of the convention. The delegates voted to send a copy to the Continental Congress, and the reader will recognize some of the similar language which found its way into the 1776 document. The Mecklenburgh Resolution also contained a structure of government.
From the very beginning of our country, argumentem ad hominem, attacking the credentials of the opponent, has been a basic debating technique of diverting attention from the issue and onto the protagonist
Some apologists for the Muslim Brotherhood claim that the organization is social and political and not violent or advocates of terrorism. However, quotations like this one calls clearly for the sacrifice of lives. Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization is the Palestinian Branch and Offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood which has never repudiated any of their terrorist murders and actively raises money for Hamas. See the original founding principle of the Muslim Brotherhood—{621776}
There is an close similarity between the Dutch revolutionary statements and that of the Founding Fathers of America. The Dutch rebels were very well aware of the American Revolution and the subsequent establishment of a republic, and emulated much of the American experience. They were the first foreign people to be inspired by the American Revolution. Many followed.
Deborah Sampson Gannett, 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. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army under the name "Robert Shirtliff" (also spelled in various sources as Shirtliffe and Shurtleff) of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782, and was honorably discharged at West Point, New York in 1783.
