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