Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1871
AUTHOR:
John Gay (16851732)
QUOTATION:
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die whove no retreat.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOHN GAY, Weve Cheated the Parson (song), Polly: an Opera, air 46, act II, scene x, The Poetical Works of John Gay, ed. John Underhill, vol. 2, p. 336 (1893).