Charles de Gaulle

« I did not forget that Europe goes from Gibraltar to Ural and, whatever should be my opinion at the account of certain regimes, I had been in Moscow as in London or in Brussels and I had established relations with Madrid as well as with Ankara. According to me, whoever would be part of united Europe would like it sincerely. »
It’s that Europe, mother of modern civilization, settles from Atlantic to Ural in friendship and in collaboration with the aim of the development of its huge means and so as to play, jointly with America his daughter, the role which returns to him as for the progress of two billion men who terrifically need it. »
press conference held in the Continental hotel, November 12th, 1953,
press conference held in the Élysée Palace, February 4th, 1965