Quote#Wisdom
Our sole and overriding purpose should be to make quite sure of…
Quote byJohn Maynard Keynes · 1883–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Kingsley Martin (November 1937), quoted in Kingsley Martin, Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography, 1931–45 (1968), p. 258.
English (original)
Our sole and overriding purpose should be to make quite sure of countering the Fascist powers at long last. It is precisely because I believe the position to be critical and dangerous that I believe strategic retreats to be necessary and the gradual consolidation of forces absolutely essential.
— John Maynard Keynes
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