Skutečná federace států a národů nastane teprve, až národové budou volní a sami se spojí. K tomu směřuje vývoj Evropy.

Tomáš Garrique Masaryk

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Robert Schuman

The Federal Union must not prejudice the right of each ... member country to solve its own special problems according to its own ethnic and cultural characteristics. But ... states must irrevocably surrender to the Federation those aspects of their sovereignty that deal with the defence, relations with states outside the Federal Union and international trade and communications.

Altiero Spinelli