I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82
The Winter Olympics have opened in Sochi, Russia, at the edge of the Black Sea, where John Paul Jones fought in the Russian Navy under Catherine The Great. This is the same John Paul Jones who commanded the Bonhomme Richard during the American Revolutionary War.