1.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
I only lament that I possess a single existence to surrender for my homeland.
2.
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
Nathan Hale
3.
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
Nathan Hale
4.
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
Nathan Hale
5.
Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.
Nathan Hale
6.
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan Hale
7.
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.
Nathan Hale
8.
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan Hale
9.
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
Nathan Hale
