“Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.” YearsPoliticalThreeSocialResultsRevolutionEuropePressesPracticalsDoctrineFranceSixtyThree TimesPolitical Revolution Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth
“A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.” LastsSocialEconomicEuropeDepthToneAddressesAgendasNeglectBalancedParliamentNeglected Author:Kenneth Clarke
“It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.” StatesHappensLawSocialEconomyGeniusEuropeRaisesDemocraticDisappearKicksSpainGreeceCliffsEntitlementDetroitDown The RoadBannerPortugalCyprus Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.” ReasonAmericaSocialClassPsychologyShareLandEuropeLaborDearTinyNo ReasonFarmersCapitalistOutlookPettyPeasantsBourgeoisProtestantsRatiosInverted Author:Richard Hofstadter
“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.” IfsCountryStatesEnoughAbleFormStrongSocialCommonEconomicDevelopmentEuropeBasesProsperityProtectionGuaranteesEntityUnitsSovereigntyStrong EnoughImplicationsPrestigeSocial DevelopmentFederationNot StrongNational SovereigntyNot Strong Enough Author:Jean Monnet
“In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.” PeopleWayKindCountryReasonCareSocialInterestRaceEuropeUniversalDemocraticWesternJewHealth CareCorporateUsaDividedEthnicityUniversal Health CareRace And Ethnicity Author:Joan Walsh Anglund
“The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.” PoliticalSocialJusticePartyGreaterEuropeTraditionSocial JusticeDemocratConservativeReformFairnessConservative PartyPolitical Reform Author:Nick Clegg
“I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.” WantSocialEuropeAreasTradeSolidarityNatoFree Trade Author:Segolene Royal