Thank God I have done my duty.

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.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

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

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.