“If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.”
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"”