Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross Quotes

1902–2003 England

Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003) was a British barrister and politician, remembered for his role as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.

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Also known as: Baron Shawcross, Hartley Shawcross, Hartley William Shawcross, Lord Shawcross, Shawcross, Hartley

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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Statement as UK prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials (1945)

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself...

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