• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

    Beilby Porteus: One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
    William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283