In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

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

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

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.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.