Quotes from H. A. L. Fisher

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

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

History is one damn thing after another.

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.