John Paul Jones1747–1792- 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
- Reply when asked whether his ship had struck, Battle of Flamborough Head (23 September 1779), as recalled by his first lieutenant, Richard Dale, in John Henry Sherburne’s Life and Character of John Paul Jones (1825); Jones’s own report gives no such words
