John Lukacs Quotes
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
Lukacs, John. The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age. Ticknor & Fields, 1993.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
The change in perception came as a result of Admiral Dewey’s May 1898 victory over the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. The United States had bested a European power.
The Iranians have longed to be a major world power ever since Alexander the Great conquered Persia. The aspirations of the Theocracy is not new. It was strong with the Shah and almost all Persians for 2 thousand years.
John Adalbert Lukacs was a Hungarian-born American historian who wrote more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic. He was a professor of history at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia from 1947 to 1994 and chaired that department from 1947 to 1974. He served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Princeton University, La Salle University, Regent College in British Columbia and the University of Budapest and Hanover College. Lukacs was Roman Catholic. Lukacs described himself as a reactionary.
