Horatio Nelson

"England expects that every man will do his duty."

"The British fleet to the northwest of Cape Finisterre."

"I have a right to be blind sometimes."

"Desperate affairs require desperate remedies."

"Victory is not a name strong enough for such deeds."

"I owe all my success to keeping watch at night."

"The Nelson touch."

"I am of opinion the boldest measures are the safest."

"My dearest friend."

"I have not yet begun to fight."

"Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down."

"I have always been a man of business."

"Duty is the great business of a sea officer."

"I only know I have the power to annihilate them."

"Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey."

"I am not sick, only sad."

"Thank God, I have done my duty."

"Victory wears a thousand smiles."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought."

"I have always been of opinion that the harder the gale the more necessary it is to keep the ship well in hand and under good command."

"Keep a slack line and you will always catch fish."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is and get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on."

"I feel as if I am just beginning to live."

"You can never go wrong if you place your trust in the Almighty."

"I am a man of business and honor."

"My mind to me a kingdom is."

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part."

"I have received many honors but none equal to the love of my country."

"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."

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge."