Horatio Nelson Quotes on War
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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
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England expects that every man will do his duty.
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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.
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The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.