John Hay Whitney Quotes
To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.
Whitney, John Hay. Quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotes from 1950 to 1988, compiled by James B. Simpson, Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
He is remembered today as the "Hanging Judge" of the American Old West. The two statements of his motto are contradictory unless all trials were perfect and all police, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants and witness always told the truth, and never made mistakes. This judge never followed the basic principle laid down by Blackstone regarding criminal law. See {594956}.
John Hay "Jock" Whitney was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Whitney family.