Best Great Depression Sayings

119 Great Depression quotes by 86 unique authors

This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford… — Barack Obama
Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is… — Robert McCloskey
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. — Ralph Abernathy
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his… — Martin O'Malley
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and… — Veronica Webb
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this… — Arne Duncan
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. — Barry Eichengreen
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
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early… — Mark Zandi
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work… — David Suzuki
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. — Charles M. Schwab
If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K. — Will Rogers
I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull… — Will Rogers
Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the… — Will Rogers
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just… — Will Rogers
The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest… — Barack Obama
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
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression… — Herbert Hoover
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. — Milton Friedman
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of… — Steve Earle
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father… — Bill O'Reilly
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes… — Kevin O'Leary

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