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" My desire for fame is infinite. "
John Paul Jones
Infinite
Fame
Desire
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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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Risk
Will
" I have not yet begun to fight! "
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War
Fight
Begun
" 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 Jones
Connection
Ship
Way
" I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army. "
John Paul Jones
Army
Happy
Never
" It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers, and therefore, it is bad policy in superiors to behave towards their inferiors indiscriminately, as though they were of a lower species. "
John Paul Jones
Bad
Superior
Service
" 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? "
John Paul Jones
Power
Madness
Great
" It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes. "
John Paul Jones
News
See
Power
" Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people. "
John Paul Jones
America
Heaven
Never
" 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 Jones
I Can
Wish
War
" When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world. "
John Paul Jones
Living
Envy
World
" If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. "
John Paul Jones
Faith
Will
Achieve
" 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. "
John Paul Jones
Time
Age
Election
" The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them. "
John Paul Jones
Situation
New
Her
" For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature. "
John Paul Jones
Nature
Rich
Service
" I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy. "
John Paul Jones
Citizen
World
Myself
" I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs. "
John Paul Jones
World
Aim
Best
" 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! "
John Paul Jones
Will
Never
Navy
" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "
John Paul Jones
Reason
Bear
Effort
" The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ. "
John Paul Jones
Class
Common
Alone
" Whoever can surprise well must conquer. "
John Paul Jones
Conquer
Whoever
Well
" 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. "
John Paul Jones
Good
Peace
Life
" Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness. "
John Paul Jones
Family
Wife
Struggle
" 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. "
John Paul Jones
Education
Strong
Practice