More From John Paul Jones
- "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 seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."
- "If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery."
More In War
- "The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped."― William Hague
- "I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat."― Mel Brooks
- "This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."― William Tecumseh Sherman