Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

England expects that every man will do his 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.

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.

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

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.