Soldier Quotes

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
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.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
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.
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.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
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.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
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. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
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.
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