Nathan Hale

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.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

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.