All H. A. L. Fisher Quotes
- I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent… Contingent
- It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,… Action
- The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. Fact
- Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative. Belief
- Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. Continent
- History is one damn thing after another. Damn