First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

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.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

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.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

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.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.