Justice Quote by Rick Atkinson

“They knew all about the war with France from Papa’s magazines. But whenever they tried to imagine what a war was actually like, it…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“He knew it was necessary to drive the French out, but he had always imagined that this would be done gloriously, with thousands of…

— Paul Bowles

“I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking…

— Javier Cercas

“They thirsted to fight because the war existed, and because it had been officially declared admirable and patriotic to kill. That was enough.”

— Noah Gordon

“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

“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of…

— Anthony Doerr

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

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

— Raymond Aron

“In France, patriotism trumped partisanship.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“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

“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