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

by:	Nathan Hale (1755-1776) American Patriot
Source:	his last words before being hanged by the British, without a trial, September 22, 1776
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Categories:	America, Courage, History, Honor, Patriotism, Revolution, Virtue, War
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True Dat True Dat brother -- Anonymous, Queens, NY
It's beautiful! -- Anonymous
Nice sentiment ~~ but Hale never said it. Everyone present at his hanging (British & colonial alike) agree that, although he spoke words that are very similiar, he did not, in fact, speak them. They were recorded later after official accounts & dispatches had circulated among his friends. -- dragonswizardz
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-- clayton wisinsski, walmart
Absolutely, with a caveat. The ideals of building a country on the eternal nobility of individual sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature's law is a life's endeavor. The occupying statist theocracy currently infesting this land is not the same country that is here referenced -- Mike, Norwalk
21years old, a spy, no stand, no real beliefs, no ideology, do unquestionably what the "authority" utters, did he even have a life to offer or lose? If you look ahead at the territories we call the United States of America of 2023, 247 years later, you wonder, did he even have a country? -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown 2

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