Jean Monnet

Building Union among people not cooperation between states

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 federation.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting 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.

Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

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