Horatio Nelson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.”

“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.”

“Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.”

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

“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.”

“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.”