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

- Jean Monnet

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

- Jean Monnet

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…

- Jean Monnet

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

- Jean Monnet

Via money Europe could become political in five years

- Jean Monnet

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…

- Jean Monnet

Building Union among people not cooperation between states

- Jean Monnet

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

- Jean Monnet

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…

- Jean Monnet