I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

- Nathanael Greene

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Jus…

- Nathanael Greene

Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and cal…

- Nathanael Greene

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

- Nathanael Greene

Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without inte…

- Nathanael Greene

It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered socie…

- Nathanael Greene

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of ou…

- Nathanael Greene