20 Quotes by Nathan Hale

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There is no god of war. War is built and controlled by human hands – humans start it, humans stop it.