The Great Depression Quotes: top 51 famous quotes about The Great Depression

The Great Depression Quotes & Sayings

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What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable. — Ted Martinez

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. — Tom Brokaw

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke

Came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over — Tom Brokaw

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression, — Ben Bernanke

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright. — Irving Fisher

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. — Jerry Stiller

With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them. — Michael Cisco

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. — Charles M. Schwab

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. — Clive Barker

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know. — Will Rogers

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. — Eugene Fama

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry

Victimhood and a 'can't do' spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. — Cal Thomas

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that. — Wynton Marsalis

The worst is over without a doubt. — Alfred P. Sloan

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression. — Robert J. Shiller

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin

The country is not in good condition. — Calvin Coolidge

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots. — James K. Glassman

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten. — Amy Grant

In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant — William E. Leuchtenburg

I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance. — Karen Elson

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did. — Kasey Chambers

To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day. — Max Braithwaite

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all. — David Stockman

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. — John Updike

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. — Anne Sullivan

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age. — John Cornwell

Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. — Harry S. Dent

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet. — Dennis L. McKiernan

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. — S. Truett Cathy

We have hit bottom and are on the upswing. — James J. Davis

Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression - but it won't stop another bubble. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. — Ralph Abernathy

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression. — Steny Hoyer

Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root. — Katherine Longshore

The Government's business is in sound condition. — Andrew Mellon

During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism. — Maureen Corrigan

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. — Clint Eastwood

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. — Barry Eichengreen

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki

American labor may now look to the future with confidence. — James J. Davis

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. — Larry Elder

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith