Jean Monnet

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

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

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.

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