"I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If …"

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

"He behaved with great composure and resolution, saying he thought it the duty of every good Officer, to obey any orde…"

"However, at the gallows, he made a sensible and spirited speech; among other things, told them they were shedding the…"

"‘Hate of oppression’s arbitrary plan, The love of freedom, and the rights of man; A strong desire to save from slaver…"

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

"She became most fervent, continually risking her life by harbouring and maintaining priests, was frequently imprisone…"

"Like as the armèd knyght Appoynted to the fielde, With thys world wyll I fyght, And fayth shall be my shielde."

"Christopher Dare...asked me, wherefore I said, I had rather to read five lines in the Bible, than to hear five Masses…"

"John Rogers was educated at Cambridge, and was afterward many years chaplain to the merchant adventurers at Antwerp i…"