Robert Houghwout Jackson cytaty (101 cytatów, strona 2)

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Robert Houghwout Jackson słynne cytaty

„Zło, które chcemy potępić i ukarać było tak skalkulowane, tak złe i niszczące, że cywilizacja nie mogła tolerować dalszego jego ignorowania, ponieważ nie mogłaby przetrwać, gdyby je powtórzono.”

Robert Houghwout Jackson

Źródło: Howard J. Langer, Księga najważniejszych postaci II wojny światowej, tłum. Marek Rudowski, wyd. Bellona, Warszawa 2008, ISBN 9788311111110, s. 350

„Nigdy nie wolno zapomnieć, że zapis, na podstawie którego sądziliśmy tych oskarżonych, jest zapisem na podstawie którego historia może nas jutro osądzić. Podając tym oskarżonym kielich z trucizną, równocześnie podajemy go do własnych ust.”

Robert Houghwout Jackson

oświadczenie wygłoszone w czasie procesu norymberskiego.
Źródło: Vivien Spitz, Doktorzy z piekła rodem. Przerażające świadectwo nazistowskich eksperymentów na ludziach, Wydawnictwo Replika, 2009, s. 61.

„Jednego możemy być pewni. Przyszłe pokolenia nie będą musiały pytać z dezaprobatą: a czy naziści mieli możność powiedzenia czegoś na swoją obronę. Jest faktem, że zeznania oskarżonych usunęły wszelkie wątpliwości co do ich winy. Sami pomogli w podpisaniu własnego wyroku.”

Robert Houghwout Jackson

Źródło: Bogusław Wołoszański, Ten okrutny wiek, Wydawnictwo Colori, Warszawa 1995, ISBN 8390497204, s. 245–246.

„Nie będziemy ich sądzić za przegranie wojny, ale za to, że w ogóle ją rozpoczęli.”

Robert Houghwout Jackson

o zbrodniarzach nazistowskich sądzonych w Norymberdze.
Źródło: José María López Ruiz, Tyrani i zbrodniarze. Najwięksi nikczemnicy w dziejach świata, tłum. Agata Ciastek, Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 2006, s. 269

„Funkcją naszego rządu nie jest powstrzymywanie obywatela przed popełnianiem błędów; natomiast do zadań obywatela należy powstrzymywanie rządu przed popełnianiem błędów.”

Robert Houghwout Jackson

Robert Houghwout Jackson: Cytaty po angielsku

“Our protection against all kinds of fanatics and extremists, none of whom can be trusted with unlimited power over others, lies not in their forbearance but in the limitations of our Constitution.”

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American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 439 (1950)
Judicial opinions

“No one will question that this power is the most dangerous one to free government in the whole catalogue of powers. It usually is invoked in haste and excitement when calm legislative consideration of constitutional limitation is difficult. It is executed in a time of patriotic fervor that makes moderation unpopular. And, worst of all, it is interpreted by judges under the influence of the same passions and pressures. Always, as in this case, the Government urges hasty decision to forestall some emergency or serve some purpose and pleads that paralysis will result if its claims to power are denied or their confirmation delayed.”

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On the "war power"; Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co., 333 U.S. 138, 146 (1948) (concurring)
Judicial opinions

“But we must not forget that in our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.”

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American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 438 (1950)
Judicial opinions

“The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation, than any other person in America.”

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"The Federal Prosecutor" (1940)

“The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.”

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343 U.S. 325
Judicial opinions, Zorach v. Clauson (1952)

“Each of these men made a real contribution to the Nazi plan. Each man had a key part. Deprive the Nazi regime of the functions performed by a Schacht, a Sauckel, a Von Papen, or a Goering and you have a different regime. Look down the rows of fallen men and picture them as the photographic and documentary evidence shows them to have been in their days of power. Is there one who did not substantially advance the conspiracy along its bloody path toward its bloody goal? Can we assume that the great effort of these men's lives was directed toward ends they never suspected?”

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Summation for the Prosecution, July 26, 1946
Quotes from the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)

“No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside of the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world.”

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Regarding the Nuremberg Trials
New York Times Obituary (October 10, 1954)

“But when notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not 'due process.”

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Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950)
Judicial opinions

“If we concede to the State power and wisdom to single out "duly constituted religious" bodies as exclusive alternatives for compulsory secular instruction, it would be logical to also uphold the power and wisdom to choose the true faith among those "duly constituted." We start down a rough road when we begin to mix compulsory public education with compulsory godliness.”

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343 U.S. 325
Judicial opinions, Zorach v. Clauson (1952)

“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.”

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Nuremberg Tribunal.
Opening Address to the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials (10 November 1945)
Quotes from the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)

“Nothing in our Constitution is plainer than that declaration of a war is entrusted only to Congress. Of course, a state of war may in fact exist without a formal declaration. But no doctrine that the Court could promulgate would seem to me more sinister and alarming than that a President whose conduct of foreign affairs is so largely uncontrolled, and often even is unknown, can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation's armed forces to some foreign venture.”

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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (concurring)
Judicial opinions

“No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role.”

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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (concurring)
Judicial opinions

“The plans of Adolf Hitler for aggression were just as secret as Mein Kampf, of which over six million copies were published in Germany. He not only openly advocated overthrowing the Treaty of Versailles, but made demands which went far beyond a mere rectification of its alleged injustices (GB-128). He avowed an intention to attack neighboring states and seize their lands, which he said would have to be won with "the power of a triumphant sword."”

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Here, for every German to hearken to, were the "ancestral voices prophesying war."
Summation for the Prosecution, July 26, 1946
Quotes from the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)