Jean Monnet Quotes

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

  Jean Monnet

  People, Accepting, Accepting Change

  Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”

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

  Jean Monnet

  Europe, People, Unions

  Article by the Jean Monnet Association on the History of the European Union page, www.historiasiglo20.org.

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• There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.

  Jean Monnet

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, August 5, 1943.

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

  Jean Monnet

  Lying, Men, Differences

  Article by the Jean Monnet Association on the History of the European Union page, www.historiasiglo20.org.

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• 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 an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

  Jean Monnet

  Past, Community, Progress

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

  Jean Monnet

  Europe, Fusion, Economic

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

  Jean Monnet

  Men, Institutions, Lasting

  Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”

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• Building Union among people not cooperation between states

  Jean Monnet

  People, Unions, Cooperation

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

  Jean Monnet

  Europe

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• There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.

  Jean Monnet

  Real, Europe, Impossible

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

  Jean Monnet

  Business, Ambition, Ambitious

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

  Jean Monnet

  Men, States, Crisis

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

  Jean Monnet

  Ideas, Moments, Premature

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• 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 be on your side.

  Jean Monnet

  Men, Your Side, Waiting

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• Via money Europe could become political in five years

  Jean Monnet

  Years, Europe, Political

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