“Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.”

— Horatio Nelson

Before the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1797), as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 5; alternately reported as "Westminster Abbey, or victory!"
1790s

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