13 Quotes by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

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.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

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.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.