Quote#Freedom
The intelligentsia of the Left were the loudest in demanding that the…
Quote byJohn Maynard Keynes · 1883–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to The New Statesman (14 October 1939), quoted in Joel Greenberg, Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence (2014), p. 11.
English (original)
The intelligentsia of the Left were the loudest in demanding that the Nazi aggression should be resisted at all costs; when it comes to a showdown, scarce four weeks have passed before they remember that they are pacifists and write defeatist letters to your columns, leaving the defence of Freedom to Colonel Blimp and the Old School Tie, for whom three cheers.
— John Maynard Keynes
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