John Paul Jones frases

• I have not yet begun to fight!

  John Paul Jones

  Día de los Caídos, Militar, Guerra

  Quoted in John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones (1825).

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• No quiero tener relación con ningún barco que no navegue rápido, porque tengo la intención de correr peligro.

  John Paul Jones

  Life, Fear, Military

  Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

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• If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

  John Paul Jones

  Faith, Stronger, Mastery

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• El que no arriesga no puede ganar.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Risk, Inexorable

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• 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.

  John Paul Jones

  Mean, Gentleman, Honor

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• It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Law, Risk

  "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

  John Paul Jones

  Running, Risk, Action

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• I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

  John Paul Jones

  America, Honor, Trifles

  "Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013.

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• 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

  War, Blood, Wish

  Robert Morris Letter Book, Rosenbach Collection No. 33, 1943.

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• You understand why some animals eat their young.

  John Paul Jones

  Animal, Chemistry, Young

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• I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

  John Paul Jones

  Military, May, Strikes

  Said during the Battle of Flamborough Head, September 23, 1779.

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• Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

  John Paul Jones

  Uprising, World War 2, Surprise

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• ...sin una Marina Respetable, ¡Ay América!

  John Paul Jones

  America, Navy, Naval

  John Paul Jones, Benjamin Walker (1851). “Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones : Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne... : Compiled from His Original Journals and Correspondence : Including an Account of His Services in the American Revolution and in the War Between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea”, p.44

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• Nunca me pasa nada emocionante.

  John Paul Jones

  Exciting, Happens

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• Cuando se trata de hombres de buen sentimiento rara vez hay malentendidos.

  John Paul Jones

  Men, Feelings, Fine

  Letter from Jones to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 01, 1779.

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