Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through..

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators..

Desperate affairs require desperate measures..

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone..

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 p….

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable..

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 a….

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it ….

Thank God I have done my duty..

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 ….

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 du….

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 offend….

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….

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding..

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied..

I cannot command winds and weather..

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat..

I have a right to be blind sometimes..

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!.

There can be no place for self entirely.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so..