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 doing my duty.

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.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.

I have often though how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders…

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons t…

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd.-For death is a debt, A debt on demand.-So take what I o…