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

- Nathan Hale

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…

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale

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

- Nathan Hale