There are three things, young gentlemen, which you are constantly to bear in mind. Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting 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 do the devil.

Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793). Pettigrew, Thomas Jos. Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson K.B., Volume 2. London: T. and W. Boone, New Bond Street. 1849, pg 580.