"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
"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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Source: Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article Torrington in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (p. 52), 1897.
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