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European integration should not be rigid but as flexible as we can possibly make it. It should not be a straitjacket for the peoples of Europe but should be their common mainstay, a common support for the healthy, individual development of each of them.

— Konrad Adenauer

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One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

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We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.

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I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.

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