“France will always be a great nation.”

“France is great because she is France.”

“France cannot be France without greatness.”

“I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world.”

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”

“A constitution is the property of a nation, and not of those who exercise the government. All the constitutions of America are declared to be established on the authority of the people. In France, the word nation is used istead of the people; but in both cases, a constitution is a thing antecedent to the government, and always distinct therefrom.”

“France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.”

“The history of France begins with the French language. Language is the primary sign of nationality.”

“Having erased Sedan, we now must erase Waterloo. France cannot be a great continental power unless she is a Rheinish power…French political wisdom has never consisted in immoderate acquisitions. In the days of France's European hegemony, she always preferred influence and infiltration to indigestion.”