“We must proclaim the mission and design of a united Europe, whose moral conception will win the respect and gratitude of mankind and whose physical strength will be such that none will dare molest her tranquil sway...
I hope to see a Europe where men and women of every country will think of being European as of belonging to their native land, and wherever they go in this wide domain will truly feel, ‘Here I am at home’.”
Winston Churchill at the inaugural Congress of Europe at the Hague in May 1948.
