Herbert Fisher Quotes on History

3 quotes

  1. All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed.

  2. 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.

    #3 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
  3. Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

    #4 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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