Jean Monnet Quotations

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

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

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