Beilby Porteus

“One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Princes were privileged to kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.”

“War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.”

“The Bible, without a comment, is the sun in the heavens.”

“Teach him to think that all the world was made for one man's profit, and that lies are lawful, which secure his state.”

“He that has tasted the sweets of piety will not be diverted from it by the bitterest taunts of the scorner.”

“The great, the important day, is now arrived, when the most momentous question is to be decided which ever was agitated in this House.”

“The Gospel of Christ is a gospel of peace.”

“Let us not, then, be deterred by the vain terrors which have been held out to us, by the phantoms of insurrection and massacre.”

“Christianity... hath banished slavery from every quarter of the Christian world, where its influence has been justly and properly felt.”

“Let us show that we are Christians, not merely in name, but in deed and in truth.”

“To the gay herd of revel, toil, and strife, And hunt the bubble of a restless life.”

“The Sabbath is a day of rest, of peace, of holiness, of spiritual joy.”