Lord Melbourne
8 quotations
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.