Single European Quotes by Jean Monnet

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Jean Monnet has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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,…
• 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.

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