My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
More Quotes from 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.Horatio Nelson
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson
Nelson had decided well in advance of Trafalgar that he would abandon classic tactics and attack the horizontal French and Spanish line in two vertical columns, unleashing maximum chaos, his preferred environment. After that, it was every ship for itself. I think it will surprise and confound the enemy, ... They won't know what I am about. It will bring forward a pell-mell battle, and that is what I want.
Horatio Nelson
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson
I cannot command winds and weather.
Horatio Nelson
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