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Quotes by Lord Melbourne

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
– Lord Melbourne
God help the Minister that meddles with art!
– Lord Melbourne
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
– Lord Melbourne
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
– Lord Melbourne
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
– Lord Melbourne
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
– Lord Melbourne
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
– Lord Melbourne
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
– Lord Melbourne
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
– Lord Melbourne
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
– Lord Melbourne
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
– Lord Melbourne
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
– Lord Melbourne