Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Thank God I have done my duty.
What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.