John Paul Jones is famous for saying:
"I have not yet begun to fight!"-- to Captain Pearson of the H.M.S. Serapis in the Battle of Flamborough Head. (1779)
"Without a respectable navy-- alas America!"-- in a letter to Robert Morris (1776)
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."-- in a letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (1778)
"Where men of fine feeling are concerned, there is seldom misunderstanding."-- in a letter to the Marquis de Lafayette (1779)
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