American - Soldier | July 6, 1747 - July 18, 1792
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
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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.
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I have not yet begun to fight!
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Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
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I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
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America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.
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Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?
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It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!
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