All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

- John Lukacs

Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American wr…

- John Lukacs

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that th…

- John Lukacs

Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too…

- John Lukacs

But then history does not only consist of documents.

- John Lukacs

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

- John Lukacs

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

- John Lukacs