John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones
John Paul Joneswas a Scottish-born American sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends and enemies among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy," an epithet that he shares with John Barry). He later served in the Imperial Russian Navy, subsequently...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth6 July 1747
CountryUnited States of America
You understand why some animals eat their young.
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
Nothing exciting ever happens to me.
One slightly naughty thing I was thinking as I was watching the MTV thing, is how many people it took to replace me, and how few people it's taken me to replace them.
I've never actually seen a tribute band. I can't really get a hold of the concept. To me, it's old material. I have no interest in it. I want to see what's coming now.
I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.
...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
People ask, `What was it like when you wrote Stairway to Heaven?' As if three wisemen had come knocking on the door, `Excuse me, are you writing Stairway to Heaven here?'
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.
It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
Whoever can surprise well must conquer.