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  • Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

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  • Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

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    Letter from Jones to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 01, 1779.

  • You understand why some animals eat their young.

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  • He who will not risk cannot win.

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  • I have not yet begun to fight!

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    Military  
    Quoted in John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones (1825).

  • Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

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  • If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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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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    "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

  • 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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    Life   Fear   Military  
    Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

  • 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.

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    Robert Morris Letter Book, Rosenbach Collection No. 33, 1943.

  • 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.

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    "Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013.

  • I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

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    Military  
    Said during the Battle of Flamborough Head, September 23, 1779.

  • 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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  • ...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

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    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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John Paul Jones

  • Born: July 6, 1747
  • Died: July 18, 1792
  • Occupation: Sailor
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