Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets.… — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
“People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.” — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised… — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics… — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in… — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
