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… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued,… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
