John Paul Jones quotes
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“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
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“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.”
-- John Paul JonesSource : Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778
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“Whoever can surprise well must conquer.”
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“I have not yet begun to fight!”
-- John Paul JonesSource : Quoted in John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones (1825).
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“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”
-- John Paul JonesSource : Robert Morris Letter Book, Rosenbach Collection No. 33, 1943.
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“It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.”
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“It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.”
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“I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.”
-- John Paul JonesSource : "Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013.
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“You understand why some animals eat their young.”
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“I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!”
-- John Paul JonesSource : Said during the Battle of Flamborough Head, September 23, 1779.
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“Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.”
-- John Paul JonesSource : Letter from Jones to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 01, 1779.
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“...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!”
-- John Paul JonesSource : John Paul Jones, Benjamin Walker (1851). “Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones : Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne... : Compiled from His Original Journals and Correspondence : Including an Account of His Services in the American Revolution and in the War Between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea”, p.44
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