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

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Lawyers from EnglandLabour Party (UK) politiciansCentenariansPresidents of the Board of Trade (United Kingdom)
Original Language: English

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Statement as UK prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials (1945), as quoted in The Nuremberg Trials (1983) by Ann Tusa and John Tusa,