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... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

Via money Europe could become political in five years

Building Union among people not cooperation between states

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

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.