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Lord Melbourne
British
Statesman
About the author
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
#Mind
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
#Life
#Pretty
#Religion
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
#Crime
#Government
#Duty
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
#Want
#Support
#Will
#Men
#Wrong
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
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,
British
Statesman
#Love
#Man
#Nature
#Pleasure
#Wounds
#Pursuit
#Neglect
#Idleness
#Faults
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,
British
Statesman
#Popular
#First
#Doubt
#Doctrine
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne,
British
Statesman
#Man
#Fool