...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
I have not yet begun to fight!
He who will not risk cannot win.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.