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Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honourable by being necessary.
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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. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.
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Nathan Hale
Born:
June 6, 1755
Died:
September 22, 1776
(aged 21)
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Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed.
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