First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. – Horatio Nelson
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. – Horatio Nelson
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. – Horatio Nelson
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates