"[A]fter eighty-nine years of his life, Monnet remains, as he has been throughout, impregnably optimistic but not Utopian. He does not believe in miracles, and although he believes that crucial moments of opportunity must never be lost, he gives more importance to patience and direction than to speed and the construction of false timetables. His modesty and manner is underpinned by an unshakeable intellectual self-confidence. ... He is undoubtedly a great man, who has lived a remarkable life."
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Roy Jenkins, Foreword (August 1977) to Monnett's Memoirs (1978), pp. 12–13
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Jean Monnet
1888 – 1979
französischer Politiker
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