Quotes About Nathan Hale

#1. Did you read where the great-grandson of Nathan Hale got married this weekend? Give me liberty or give me death. That's what the groom will be saying in about one month.

J.R. Moehringer

#2. I only regret that I have but one life to loose for my country.

Nathan Hale

#3. Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Voltaire

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

Nathan Hale

#5. One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression ... by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead. J.R.R. Tolkien

Nathan Hale

#6. It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

Joel Edgerton

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

Nathan Hale

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

Nathan Hale

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

Nathan Hale

#10. Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

Karl Kraus

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

Nathan Hale

#12. I regret that I have only a little bit of pocket lint to give to my country.

Nathan Hale

#13. I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

Courtney Love

#14. I have but one life to live for my country

Nathan Hale

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

Nathan Hale

#16. Don't let quick wins distract your focus from long-term goals.

Sascha Bosio

#17. I don't have regrets because they are negative.

Bruce Oldfield

#18. With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

Paulo Coelho

#19. The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher's eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner's lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Anna Myers

#20. Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

Phil Ochs

#21. Shun all vice, especially card playing.

Nathan Hale

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

Nathan Hale

#23. Drama is the last drug of the desperate whore

Christian Galacar

#24. When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

E. Stanley Jones

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

Nathan Hale