England expects every man to do his duty
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
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.
I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.