Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in….

Building Union among people not cooperation between states.

Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest..

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe..

The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to b….

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions..

Via money Europe could become political in five years.

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prospe….

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along..

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis..

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State..

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do..

There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics an….

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union..

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them..