I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight!

It Seems To Be A Law Of Nature, Inflexible And Inexorable, That Those Who Will Not Risk Cannot Win.

...without A Respectable Navy, Alas America!

You Understand Why Some Animals Eat Their Young.

It Is True That I Must Run A Great Risk; No Gallant Action Was Ever Accomplished Without Danger.

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.