Country Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as…

— Werner Heisenberg

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

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

Indeed, if all of humankind could cooperate, trade and work together as the nations of the EU have done, then there would be more…

— Hilary Benn

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build…

— Timothy Garton Ash

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

— Henry Williamson

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an…

— Adolf Hitler

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit…

— Rosa Luxemburg