“England expects that every man will do his duty.” — Horatio Nelson Quote

England expects that every man will do his duty.

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.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

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.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.