Horatio Nelson - Opinion Quotes

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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.

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The measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest are the safest.

Horatio Nelson

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.

Horatio Nelson