Quotes by Horatio Nelson - Page 2

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Horatio Nelson / Military Commander
Mean
People
Would Be
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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 / Military Commander
Kings
Alive
Country
Envious
Glory
Gracious
Offending
Sin
Covet
Greatest Happiness
Serve
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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 / Military Commander
Hands
Haste
Instruments
Legs
Alone Me Better
Arm
Sooner
Right Arm
Surgeon
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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 / Military Commander
Running
Danger
Long Ago
Peers
Should Have
Time Great Long
Every Time
Service
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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 / Military Commander
Attempting
Devil
Enemy
Every Man
Form
Hate
Ill
Opinion
Propriety
Consider
Firstly
Frenchman
Implicitly
Obey
Orders
Regarding
Secondly
Speaks
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Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting 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 do the devil.
Horatio Nelson / Military Commander
Kings
Men
Hate
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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 / Military Commander
Boast
Fancy
Night
Order
Port
Sea
Staying
Worn
Years
Finds
Fleet
Increasing
Ours
Suffers
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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 / Military Commander
Battle
Enemy
Mean
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