"You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself."
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"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."
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"What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy."
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"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."
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"The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed."
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"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."
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"Thank God I have done my duty."
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"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."
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"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."
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"I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so."
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"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."
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"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
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"Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done."
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"I cannot command winds and weather."
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"To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding."
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"I have a right to be blind sometimes."
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"Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself."
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"Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight"
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"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
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"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."
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