Nathan Hale
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Collection: Memorial
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.Collection: Fear
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
Shun all vice, especially card playing.
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!Collection: Fighting
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.Collection: 4th Of July
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.Collection: Expectations
Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.Collection: Pantheon
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.Collection: Order
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.Collection: Spy
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.Collection: Country