Best Great Depression Quotes
119 Great Depression quotes by 86 unique authors
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The Government's business is in sound condition.
— Andrew Mellon
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American labor may now look to the future with confidence.
— James J. Davis
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I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.
— Alfred P. Sloan
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The country is not in good condition.
— Calvin Coolidge
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Financial storm definitely passed.
— Bernard Baruch
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
— Herbert Hoover
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In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but…
— Calvin Coolidge
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While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall…
— Herbert Hoover
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The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
— John Steinbeck
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FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH
— Irving Fisher
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The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former…
— Stuart Chase
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I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of…
— Andrew Mellon
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I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.
— Herbert Hoover
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The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.
— Julian Barnes
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All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than…
— David Lereah
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I don't worry about new home sales
— James K. Glassman
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...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
— David Lereah
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These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.
— James K. Glassman
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When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.
— James K. Glassman
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The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.
— David Lereah
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We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
— David Lereah
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One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much…
— Scott Simon
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I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night…
— Ronald Reagan
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