Jean Monnet
Jean Monnet
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnetwas a French political economist and diplomat. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. He was a European executive body, as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, and thus he is known as the "Father of Europe". Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist. He...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1888
CountryFrance
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 important is done in the United States without lawyers.
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.
Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.
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.
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.
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.
Via money Europe could become political in five years
Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
Building Union among people not cooperation between states