Jean Monnet Quotes
- Building Union among people not cooperation between states
- Via money Europe could become political in five years
- There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
- There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their…
- Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.
- People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
- 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…
- The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
- Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
- Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.
- Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
- Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.
- The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a…
- Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
- To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
- Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.