Great depression Quotes

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Irving Fisher

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The country is not in good condition.

— Calvin Coolidge

I've lived through the Great Depression.

— Carl Reiner

Financial storm definitely passed.

— Bernard Baruch

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

— David Lereah

We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.

— James J. Davis

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

— Barry Eichengreen

“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

“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.”

— Charles River Editors

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

— David Stockman

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

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

— Harry S. Dent

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Ben Bernanke

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great…

— Steny Hoyer

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in…

— Steve Buyer

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have…

— Anonymous

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

— Rand Paul

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible…

— Steve Buyer

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire.…

— Anonymous

I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's…

— Barack Obama

I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since…

— Barack Obama

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values…

— Matthew Quick

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have…

— Herbert Hoover

“We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.…

— Jerry Ash

“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history…

— Ronald Geigle

“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are…

— Jerry Ash

“From this failure to expunge the microeconomic foundations of neoclassical economics from post-Great Depression theory arose the "microfoundations of macroeconomics" debate, which…

— Steve Keen

“It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species—the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea,…

— Matthew Louis

“Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five—a reasonable notion when…

— Atul Gawande

“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions.…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Phoebe Hurty hired me to write copy for ads about teen aged clothes. I had to wear the clothes I praised. That…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and…

— Erlend Bakke

“Unfortunately, America has trouble repairing its magnificent trails, so that collapsed bridges and washed-out sections are sometimes left unrepaired. We were rich…

— Anonymous

Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew…

— David Stockman