Writing Quote by Elizabeth H. Bradley

“The French visitor to America Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s, described the connection between American individualism and historical amnesia: Not only does…

— John Fea

“The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave…

— John F. Kennedy

“More than a century before Mills and Nisbet, Alexis de Tocqueville had remarked upon the uneasiness of the citizens of the young republic, who…

— Charles J. Sykes

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from the American…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so…

— Elaine Sciolino

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams

“De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part…

— David Foster Wallace

“In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country…

— Simon Anholt

“In France, patriotism trumped partisanship.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton