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.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

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.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

There can be no place for self entirely

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

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.