...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
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.
Nothing exciting ever happens to me.
I have not yet begun to fight!
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.