If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. - John Paul Jones 1 Share Now -
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. - John Paul Jones 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. - John Paul Jones 5 Share Now -
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. - John Paul Jones 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. - John Paul Jones 10 Share Now -
