"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

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82