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What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass. - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
" "What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.
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About William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834 and 1835–1841).
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My principles are, as I believe, the Whig principles of the revolution. The main foundation of them is the irresponsibility of the crown, the consequent responsibility of ministers, and the preservation of the power and dignity of parliament as constituted by law and custom. With a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions, I have nothing to do.
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