"An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it."
-John Paul Jones
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"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.“
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"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery."
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