The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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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
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Lord Melbourne
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne
Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
Lord Melbourne
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
Lord Melbourne
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