John Maynard Keynes Quotes about Liberty

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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

John Maynard Keynes

Justice, Political, Liberty

John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

John Maynard Keynes

Men, Liberty, Saving

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

Years, Liberty, Littles

John Maynard Keynes (1932). “Essays in persuasion”

[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.

John Maynard Keynes

Book, Competition, Liberty

"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Preface to the German Edition, February, 1936.