Building Union among people not cooperation between states

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

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.

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

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

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.