If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

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

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

England expects every man to do his duty

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.