Nathan Hale Quotes

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

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

  Nathan Hale

  Fighting, Gentleman, Independence

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

  Nathan Hale

  Thinking, America, Enemy

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

  Nathan Hale

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence

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

  Nathan Hale

  Expectations, Wish, Rewards

  "Life of Captain Nathan Hale". Book by Isaac William Stuart, p. 94, 1856.

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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 Hale

  Pantheon, Hale

  "Nathan Hale's Mission". CIA Historical Review Program document, www.cia.gov. July 02, 1996.

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

  Nathan Hale

  Order, Execution, Given

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

  Nathan Hale

  Spy, Should, Cases

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

  Nathan Hale

  Country, Peculiar, Demand

  "Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy". Book by M. William Phelps, 2015.

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