Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
John Paul Jones
Scottish Sailor and the United States first well-known Naval Fighter, Captain in the American Revolutionary War
"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery."
"Whoever can surprise well must conquer. "
"I have not yet begun to fight! "
"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."