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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:848
AUTHOR:John Paul Jones (1747–92)
QUOTATION:I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.
ATTRIBUTION:JOHN PAUL JONES, letter to M. Le Ray de Chaumont, November 16, 1778.—Lincoln Lorenz, John Paul Jones, Fighter for Freedom and Glory, p. xiii (1943).
SUBJECTS:Harm
 
 
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