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.

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.

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.

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

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

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

Thank God I have done my duty.