Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting 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 do the devil.
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. - Horatio Nelson
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
- Horatio Nelson
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. - Horatio Nelson
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest. - Horatio Nelson
I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.
A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators. - Horatio Nelson
A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.
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… - Horatio Nelson
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…
Thank God I have done my duty. - Horatio Nelson
Thank God I have done my duty.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. - Horatio Nelson
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
England expects that every man will do his duty. - Horatio Nelson
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. - Horatio Nelson
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
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