Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
March 21, 1865 – April, 18, 1940.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM PC FRS FBA (21 March 1865 – 18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Board of Education in David Lloyd George's 1916 to 1922 coalition government.

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, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- History
- Faith
- Action
History is one damn thing after another.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

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

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- Race
- Doe
- Europe
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- History
- Nature
- Law
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Herbert Albert Laurens 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 unforeseen.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- Play
- Destiny
- Development