We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.
"The United States of Europe". The Saturday Evening Post (February 15, 1930), later quoted in "The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Volume II: Churchill and Politics" (p. 184), 1976.