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Horatio Nelson [1758-1805] British Rank: 101 Soldier Alone, Best, Death, Happiness, Humor, Power, Trust, Truth, Veterans Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.		101
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.		102
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.		103
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.	Humor	104
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!		105
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.	Alone	106
England expects that every man will do his duty.		107
Buonaparte 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 staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.	Truth	108
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.	Best	109
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.	Veterans Day	110
I cannot command winds and weather.		111
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.	Power	112
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.	Death	113
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.		114
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.		115
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. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.		116
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 most offending soul alive.	Happiness	117
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.		118
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.	Alone	119
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.		120
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.		121
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.	Trust	122
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.		123
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 Service and never in the House of Peers.		124

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