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Top 13 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“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

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

― 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 not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.”

― William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”

― William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.”

― 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

“That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”

― William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.”

― William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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

― 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

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

― William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”

― William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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