Geoffrey Robertson Quotations

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

He was the first to want to make poverty history, and his... reforms came to pass centuries after he made the suggestions, ... And to see the event through his eyes provides, I think, an important corrective to those three strands of history that have, for one reason or another, ignored or deplored the trial of the king.

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

Our forefathers were involved in the civil war, and it was the crucible period where the democratic values that we believe in today, and we assert against the terrorists, were first forged,

Representative government, the supremacy of parliament, the independence of the judiciary, separation of church and state - all this progress in Western thinking came about in this period.

They would never have had the courage to carry through on that belief if it hadn't been kind of a fusion of these two great motives,

I think our grandchildren will look back in some amazement at this period, where we allow Idi Amin to die in his bed, and allow Pol Pot to die after killing 1.7 million,