Horatio nelson

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

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

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.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

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.

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

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.