Jean Monnet Quotes

1888–1979 France

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator. An advocate of European unity, he is considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

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Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection….

Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture.

Speech on the war in French Algeria before French National Assembly (1957)

Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Monnet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.