"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
"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."
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Source: Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.223
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