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Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
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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.”
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (1902–2003) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement as UK prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials (1945), as quoted in The Nuremberg Trials (1983) by Ann Tusa and John Tusa,
“We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.”
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (1902–2003) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 (following a quotation from Through the Looking-Glass in which Humpty-Dumpty observed that the question of definitions of words d…
“Let us not foist this humbug on the world.”
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (1902–2003) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to Soviet disarmament proposals, which he plainly saw as disingenuous, as quoted in Time magazine (9 December 1946)
“All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in his obituary in The Times (11 July 2003)
“I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct. I have had opportunities of great positions in the service of the state, but I have put them aside. I know that I have not devoted myself enough to promoting the good of others.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in The Times (11 July 2003)
“I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.”
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (1902–2003) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in his obituary in The Independent (11 July 2003)
“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.”
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (1902–2003) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his distaste for opposition politics, in an interview with Tom Stacey for the Daily Express, as quoted in The Independent (11 July 2003)