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Nathan Hale and Horace

'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,' said Nathan Hale, echoing Horace's line that it's sweet to die for one's homeland.

A universal statist ideal.

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Most nations celebrate such sentiments; the Hebrew Bible conspicuously doesn't.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 399

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