WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:22:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Shawcross, Hartley – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shawcross, Hartley -- Opening remarks, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal (4 Dec 1945) https://wist.info/shawcross-hartley/58610/ https://wist.info/shawcross-hartley/58610/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:05:40 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=58610 Political loyalty, military obedience are excellent things, but they neither require nor do they justify the commission of patently wicked acts. There comes a point where a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience.


Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003) English barrister, politician, diplomat
Opening remarks, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal (4 Dec 1945)
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