Jean Monnet citations (8 citations)

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Jean Monnet citations célèbres

“Il faut se résoudre à conclure que l'entente est impossible avec De Gaulle, qu'il est un ennemi du peuple français et de ses libertés, qu'il est un ennemi de la construction européenne (et) qu'en conséquence, il doit être détruit dans l'intérêt des Français.”

Jean Monnet

Note déclassifiée, adressée au secrétaire d'État américain Harry Hopkins, (cité par Éric Branca, "De Gaulle - Monnet ou le duel du siècle", Revue Espoir, n°117, novembre 1998, p 9).

“Dans la vie, il faut choisir : faire quelque chose ou être quelqu'un.”

Jean Monnet

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“Rien n'est possible sans les hommes, rien n'est durable sans les institutions. […] Les institutions peuvent, si elles sont bien construites, accumuler et transmettre la sagesse des générations successives.”

Jean Monnet

Jean Monnet: Citations en anglais

“Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.”

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Jean Monnet 1888-1979

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

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Jean Monnet 1888-1979

“France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture.”

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Speech on the war in French Algeria before French National Assembly (1957), cited in Torture: The Role of Ideology in the French–Algerian War (1989) by Rita Maran, p. 44

“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….”

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Speech to the French National Liberation Committee (5 August 1943)
Jean Monnet 1888-1979
Contexte: 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.

“Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace.”

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Speech by Robert Schuman (9 May 1950), written by Monnet
Jean Monnet 1888-1979