Country Quote by Ernst Toller

“It is facile to condemn the French for giving in to the Nazis too easily when many French citizens would have still borne the…

— Kate Quinn

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

— Will Rogers

“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…

— Anton Chekhov

I don't know why people are surprised the French don't want to help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help…

— Jay Leno

“The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a large swathe…

— Mike Jay

“France was eclipsed by the solid German block, producing far more than twice her number of military males each year, towering up grim and…

— William Stevenson

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of…

— Kelly Miller

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although…

— Edward Herrmann

If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when…

— Graham T. Allison

“This knowledge, however, served the purposes of peace rather than war. The German general staff grasped that the tide of Americans, now just shy…

— Joseph E. Persico

“When the French high command had got wind of the German Schlieffen Plan prior to World War I, their reaction had been, “So much…

— Tom Clancy

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting…

— Charles Duhigg