American president Quote by Noam Chomsky

A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every…

— Zack de la Rocha

“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.”

— Saiom Shriver

In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were…

— Werner Herzog

“If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen…

— Timothy Snyder

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

— Grover Cleveland

The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed…

— Albert Einstein

“The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to…

— Hannah Arendt

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and…

— Charles Guggenheim

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

— Martin Luther King Jr

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

— Jack Kevorkian

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions…

— Michael Ignatieff

If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

— Donna McKechnie