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I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
— Lord Melbourne wish
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
— Lord Melbourne men
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 men
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
— Lord Melbourne life
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
— Lord Melbourne man
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
— Lord Melbourne wish
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
— Lord Melbourne mind
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 love
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 doubt
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
— Lord Melbourne men
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
— Lord Melbourne men

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