I cannot command winds and weather.
A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
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.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
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.