Nathan Hale Quotes
-
Shun all vice, especially card playing.
-
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
-
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.
-
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
-
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.
-
I regret that I have only a little bit of pocket lint to give to my country.
-
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.
-
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
-
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
-
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
-
Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.
-
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
-
I only regret I have but one live to give for my country.