27 Quotes by Jean Monnet

Gli uomini accettano il cambiamento solo nella necessità e vedono la necessità soltanto nella crisi.

...les hommes n'acceptent le changement que dans la nécessité et ils ne voient la nécessité que dans la crise. (Mémoires,éditions Fayard, 1976, p. 129)

... les hommes n'acceptent le changement que dans la nécessité et ils ne voient la nécessité que dans la crise.(Mémoires, Paris, éditions Fayard, 1976, p. 129)

Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

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.

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.