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Quotes from Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen — Horatio Nelson

1758–1805 England

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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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Horatio Nelson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.