“I am so satisfied with the cause in which I have engaged, that my only regret is, that I have not more lives than one to offer in its service.”
More from Nathan Hale
“"You thought, no doubt, I took my leave that Night, But ’tis not so; you ha’n’t come off…”
“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting…”
“"A Line or two can give no great Offense, ‘Tho’void every thing that looks like Sense: For…”
“"Good by is not enough, it needs more words than Two, When friends do bid a long Adieu"”