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Wrong British Enemy Navy Admiral

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

- Horatio Nelson

Other quotes by Horatio Nelson


Country Will

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

- Horatio Nelson
Defeat Time

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

- Horatio Nelson
Blind Right

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

- Horatio Nelson
Opinion Power Man

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
Devil Opinion Man

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

- Horatio Nelson

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