Nathan Hale quotes
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
-- Nathan HaleSource : Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.
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“I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”
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“I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.”
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“Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.”
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“It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.”
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“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.”
-- Nathan HaleSource : "Life of Captain Nathan Hale". Book by Isaac William Stuart, p. 94, 1856.
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“If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.”
-- Nathan HaleSource : "Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy". Book by M. William Phelps, 2015.
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“Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.”
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“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”
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“Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.”
-- Nathan HaleSource : "Nathan Hale's Mission". CIA Historical Review Program document, www.cia.gov. July 02, 1996.
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