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.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

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

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.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

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