Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher Quotes
In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.
Herbert A. L. Fisher, 1865-1940, English Historian & Member of Parliament, Minister of Education, The Republican Tradition in Europe, The Harvard University Lowell Lectures, 1910
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Muslim League leaders wanted to stir up India's Muslims in order to prevent Indian Independence from Britain unless India were partitioned and the Muslims could have their own nation. At that point the British and the Congress Party of India—the majority political party were both starting to plan for independence. Most of the Muslim nationalists did not want to have any Muslims living in a Majority Hindu nation. To stop it, they first used fear claiming that when the British left, the Hindus would massacre all the Muslims. They galvanized the Muslims to first attack the Hindus to dissuade then from their attacks which at that point were imaginary except in the conspiracy theory of the Muslim League. The moral logic of this statement was similar, albeit not to the same bloody degree, as the famous quotation of Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater on extremism." H. S. Suhrawardy
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM PC FRS FBA 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.
