Nathan Hale quotes:

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.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppressionby 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead. J.R.R. Tolkien

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.

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.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.