Desperate affairs require desperate meas... by Horatio Nelson | We Heart Quotes

British Navy Admiral War hero Battle of Trafalgar

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

- Horatio Nelson

Other quotes by Horatio Nelson

Duty Trust God Now

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

Duty May Business

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

- Horatio Nelson

Truth

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

- 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

Blind Right

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

- Horatio Nelson

Mistake

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

- Horatio Nelson

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