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

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.

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

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

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

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.