We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“I looked over at the empty, black windows of the Whites' apartment, windows that were warm and yellow just yesterday, and I… — Jackie French Koller Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did. — Kasey Chambers Copy Share Image
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic… — John Freeman Copy Share Image
By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. The structural weaknesses of this economy plunged the nation… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“[W.D.] Jones later commented that people frequently helped them, 'Not because it was Bonnie and Clyde. People in them days just helped—no… — John Neal Phillips Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“There is only one historical development that has real significance. Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The tale of America coming out of the Great Depression and not only surviving but actually transforming itself into an economic giant… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My mother gave me very good advice years ago. I grew up in the Great Depression and she always told me to… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all."… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids,… — Richard M. DeVos Copy Share Image
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“It was the drive-in restaurant, a product of the Great Depression’s crimp on the free-wheeling lifestyle that had grown up around movie-happy… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
We call for a green New Deal, like the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression, but in this… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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