Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
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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
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
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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
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
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