“…the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.”
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill#column_1227 in the House of Commons (27 June 1817)
William Lamb, 2º Visconde Melbourne PC FRS foi um político whig britânico, primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido e mentor da rainha Vitória.
Nasceu em uma família aristocrática, partidária do partido whig. Foi educado em Eton e no Trinity College, Cambridge. Entrou em contato com um grupo de radicais românticos entre os que se encontravam Percy Bysshe Shelley e Lord Byron.
Em 1805, sucedeu a seu irmão mais velho como herdeiro ao título de seu pai e casou-se com Caroline Ponsonby. No ano seguinte elegeu-se para a Câmara dos Comuns como deputado por Leominster.
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“…the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.”
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill#column_1227 in the House of Commons (27 June 1817)
Letter to Lord Holland (10 December 1815), quoted in Philip Ziegler, Melbourne. A Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (London: Collins, 1976), p. 70
W. M. Torrens Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne (1890), p. 234
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“I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”
Lloyd C. Sanders (ed.), Lord Melbourne's Papers (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889), p. xii
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E. Jane Whately (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D. Late Archbishop of Dublin. Volume II (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866), pp. 451-452
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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1839/mar/14/corn-laws in the House of Lords (14 March 1839) in favour of the Corn Laws.
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1839/may/14/ministerial-explanations#column_1015 in the House of Lords (14 May 1839) during the Bedchamber Crisis