Jean Monnet

“Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.”

“People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.”

“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 is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.”

“To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.”

“Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.”