William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Politician United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1779–1848

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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount 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.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount 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.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne