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GOVERNMENT > prime minister > William Lamb Melbourne
[I]t is safest...
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[I]t 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.
Source: In Lord M, ch. 4, by David Cecil, 1954.
-- William Lamb Melbourne, (Mar 15 1779-1848), English prime minister; He was twice prime minister, and close friend and chief political adviser during the early reign of Queen Victoria.