37 ordspråk av Horatio Nelson

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Horatio Nelson föddes den September 29th 1758 och dog den 21 October 1805 - English military
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 A flower unblown; a book unread; A tree with fruit unharvested; A path untrod - A landscape whose wide border lies In silent shade 'neath silent skies; A wondrous fountain yet unsealed; - This is the Year that for you waits Beyond to-morrow's mystic

 England expects that every man will do his duty.

 I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand

 No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

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

 Thank God, I have done my duty.

 You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil

 [Nelson had decided well in advance of Trafalgar that he would abandon classic tactics and attack the horizontal French and Spanish line in two vertical columns, unleashing maximum chaos, his preferred environment. After that, it was every ship for itself.] I think it will surprise and confound the enemy, ... They won't know what I am about. It will bring forward a pell-mell battle, and that is what I want.

 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.

 Desperate affairs require desperate measures. He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating.

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

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

 Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding 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 hate the devil.

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

 I cannot command winds and weather.


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