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

True Dat True Dat brother

It's beautiful!

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.

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

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?