Top Quotes by American Patriot Nathan Hale

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.