Quote by James Holland

“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”

— Raymond Aron

“the concept, going back to the misty foundations of the nation, that France was the land of the free—that no one should be kept…

— Tom Reiss

“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do…

— Frederick the Great

Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.

— Alain Juppe

“... No one ever truly conquers the French.”

— Vivian LeMay

“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries.…

— Maurice Dekobra

“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.”

— Stephanie Dray

“The sudden, brilliant victory in France, like a Frankenstein monster, had turned against us; we had far outstripped our ability to supply the troops.”

— Robert E. Merriam

“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another…

— James L. Stokesbury

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French…

— Clare Short

“Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.”

— Saru Singhal

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

— Thomas Sowell