Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

Building Union among people not cooperation between states

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

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.