Depression Quote by Carroll O'Connor

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

— Peter Schiff

I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the…

— Bharati Mukherjee

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have…

— Sargent Shriver

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential…

— Thomas Woods

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to…

— Mitch Albom

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

— Neel Burton

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

— Nathaniel Branden

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

— Henry Ford

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds…

— Ben Bernanke

The Depression, which started in 1929 was rather mild from 1929 to 1930. And, indeed, in my opinion would have been over in 1931…

— Milton Friedman

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made…

— Ben Bernanke