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Nathan Hale Quote

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

— Nathan Hale

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

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

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

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Shun all vice, especially card playing.

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I do not say the mind gets informed by action,—bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best strength, that he may be able to bear the burden.

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