If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

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

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

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

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

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

My life has been very full.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

You have to destroy something to make it beautiful.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?