IN LOVING MEMORY OF HARTLEY SHAWCROSS (4 FEBURARY 1902 TO 10 JULY 2003) [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE ~ JULY 10, 2014]

 

Hartley Shawcross

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

AUTHOR: Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross GBE, PC, KC (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.