It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

England expects every man to do his duty

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Thank God I have done my duty.

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.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.