Horatio Nelson - Quotes (Audio)

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Horatio Nelson
(Audio Read Acted Quotes Out Loud)
Music by Scott Buckley - www.scottbuckley.com.au
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
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone
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
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can
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
The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands
Victory or Westminister Abbey
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be
The measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest are the safest
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all
no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy
Thank God, I have done my duty
God and my Country