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"It will not be any European statesman who will unite europe Europe will be united by the Chinese." »Charles De Gaulle
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"europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: “Warmly welcome to our family”. Our new europe is born." »Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
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"europe will never be like America. europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy." »Margaret Thatcher
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"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to europe. We are a *part* of europe." »Dan Quayle
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"The worst thing about europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee." »Tellis Frank
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"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." »Francois Fenelon
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"Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern europe without some help from the chimney." »James Burke
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"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin." »Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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"Whatever else may divide us, europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today." »Leonid Brezhnev
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"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)" »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"The best coffee in europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty." »Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
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"No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne
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"europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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"Americans who had traveled in europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom." »Forest McDonald
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"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives." »Albert Einstein
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