Quote #13
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
More from Horatio Nelson
- I have only one eye,- I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
- If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the…
- It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands.
- Victory or Westminister Abbey.
- My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the m…
- In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
- I am myself a Norfolk man.
- Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.