Family Quote by John Paul Jones

Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

— John Paul Jones

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

You understand why some animals eat their young.

— John Paul Jones

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

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

— John Paul Jones

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

He who will not risk cannot win.

— John Paul Jones

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

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

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

— John Paul Jones

The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.

— John Paul Jones