I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

You understand why some animals eat their young.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I have not yet begun to fight!