More from Hartley Shawcross

  1. We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.
  2. All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.
  3. There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
  4. 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 r…
  5. I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.
  6. 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 y…
  7. Step by step, I have arrived at the conviction that the aims of Communism in Europe are sinister and fatal. At the Nuremberg Trials, I, tog…
  8. The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

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