NATHAN HALE

I don’t think we should be selling statues of Nathan Hale at the International Spy Museum. First of all, it was an operation against our allies, the British, but most important, it failed.

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

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

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.