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

England expects that every man will do his duty.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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

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.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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.
- Horatio Nelson Quote

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