America Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French…

— Adam Michnik

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea…

— Edmund White

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people…

— Jacques Chirac

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it…

— Marine Le Pen

“America posed a deeply interesting question to any Frenchmen with a political curiosity to ask it. How had Americans launched a revolution that aimed…

— Alan James Ryan

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

— Rich Lowry

The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is…

— Michael Korda

“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with…

— Thomas Paine

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to…

— Frederic Bastiat

“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss. They clap…

— Gouverneur Morris

If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates