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.

I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.

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.

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.

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

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

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