Jean Monnet
Jean Monnet
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnetwas a French political economist and diplomat. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. He was a European executive body, as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, and thus he is known as the "Father of Europe". Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist. He...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1888
CountryFrance
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
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.
Building Union among people not cooperation between states
Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.
Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.