William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes
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I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
To the young Queen Victoria on why he refused to read Oliver Twist:
It's all among workhouses and Coffin Makers and Pickpockets… I wish to avoid them.William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
If we really are in that situation that we must do something, it is only another proof of the fatal necessity by which a nation that once begins to colonize is led step by step over the whole globe.
Of intervention in New Zealand
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Now, is it to lower the price of corn, or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
I have always thought complaints of ill-usage contemptible, whether from a seduced disappointed girl or a turned-out Prime Minister.
On being dismissed by William IV
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
