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I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

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

He who will not risk cannot win.

Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!

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

You understand why some animals eat their young.

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

I've not yet begun to fight!

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

Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

I have not yet begun to fight.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.