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The Patriot Post ^ | 22 September 1776 | Nathan Hale

[the invisib1e hand]

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

-- Nathan Hale (before being hanged by the British, 22 September 1776)

Reference: The Spirit of `Seventy-Six, Commager and Morris (476); original General William Hull, Campbell (37-38)

[the invisib1e hand]

Ping.

[Rumplemeyer]

Who said "What the @#$%**@ was that"

The Mayor of Hiroshima

[Tinman93]

Captured by the British in Boston and hanged as a spy.

[the invisib1e hand]

Captured by the British in Boston and hanged as a spy.

It occurs to me that persecuting patriots has a very long tradition.

[Loud Mime]

Who said "What the @#$%**@ was that"

The people in the Pentagon and the Twin Towers?

[Loud Mime]

I wish for some help here.

Nathan is regarded as an anti-federalist. Yet he was executed long before the convention, right?

[Tinman93]

Did I say Boston...I meant New York. From what I remember, Washington was already on the retreat and Nathan was suspected of starting a fire that took out a large section of British occupied NY.

[Dead Corpse]

"The government of a nation may be usurped by the forcible intrusion of an individual into the throne. But to conquer its will so as to rest the right on that, the only legitimate basis, requires long acquiescence and cessation of all opposition." --Thomas Jefferson to ----, 1825. ME 16:127

Pretty much sums up where we are now. Where our Schools are now liberal indoctrination centers and our major two political parties have abandoned all principle in the pursuit of ever more power stolen from "We the People".

[since 1854]

Nathan Hale's real last words were: "It is fitting to obey one's commanding officer."