The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

- H. A. L. Fisher

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

- H. A. L. Fisher

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,…

- H. A. L. Fisher

History is one damn thing after another.

- H. A. L. Fisher

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

- H. A. L. Fisher

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 and the unf…

- H. A. L. Fisher