Quote #30
I cannot command winds and weather.
More from Horatio Nelson
- Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
- I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
- Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
- I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.
- Bonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by sta…
- Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
- Thank God, I have done my duty.
- Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of d…