John Lukacs Quotes
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
Lukacs, John. Historical Consciousness: Or the Remembered Past. Harper & Row, 1968.
The ancient Jews valued resarch and studying in their own right but the greatest of these are when they lead to action.
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.
