Continental Quote by William Whipple

It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our…

— John Paul Jones

“any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By”

— Julian Stockwin

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they…

— John C. Calhoun

“When handled in a civilized fashion, Piracy on the high seas could become more of a wise business decision than of a sheer, chaotic,…

— Ted Anthony Roberts

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

— James Russell Lowell

“I bow to the Captain—I think a curtsy would be a bit out of place here—and recite, in French, the little speech I had…

— L.A. Meyer

“If the privateer you've hired is entirely trustworthy, he's probably not much of a privateer.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Some of the smugglers' vessels are former pleasure yachts, hijacked - and never renamed - out of some overdeveloped sense of irony or possibly...sheer…

— Ann Aguirre

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling…

— Wendell Willkie

Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.

— Mary H.K. Choi

The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they…

— Nick Turse