https://t.inks.page/wiki/United_States_Navy Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/United_States_Navy?t=2026-04-05 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, letter to le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778)
• As quoted in John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959), by Samuel Eliot Morison, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 182

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