Taking sides Quote by Joseph E. Persico

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

— Stephanie Dray

“Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that was to…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of “free trade,” the United States…

— Scott Anderson

“In June 1940, immediately after France surrendered to the invading Nazis, Rieber and Westrick took part in a celebratory dinner in a private room…

— Adam Hochschild

“The bitter irony was that the financial crisis had largely been caused by French support of the American patriots; in getting back at the…

— Tom Reiss

“The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they…

— James L. Stokesbury

“bloated industrials, who were piling up fortunes abroad while they were wrecking their country at home.”

— John Buchan

“It was not always the case, of course, that navies paid for themselves. In wartime, costs often exceeded revenues, and those deficits grew over…

— Max Boot

“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were the cleverest people, or the most experienced, in the world that followed 1945. The French were rather…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

“They have our soul who have our bonds - and the world was more fortunate in who had London's bonds than America is seventy…

— Mark Steyn

Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with…

— Emmanuel Macron

I see no reason why France and Britain should not have excellent relations - we are old allies.

— Marine Le Pen