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119 Great Depression quotes by 86 unique authors

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New… — Bill O'Reilly
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for… — Rand Paul
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. — Jerry Stiller
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage… — James Surowiecki
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked… — Tom Vilsack
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the… — Helen Fisher
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were… — Kurt Vonnegut
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You… — John Steinbeck
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We… — Chuck Palahniuk
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars… — Chuck Palahniuk
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third… — Kurt Vonnegut
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen… — Ha-Joon Chang
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This… — J.A. Konrath
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by… — Nicholas Stern
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great… — William Julius Wilson
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. — Eugene Fama
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they,… — Ben Stein
As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I… — James E. Faust
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when… — Ben Shapiro
What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United… — Robert Dallek
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer… — Lou Holtz
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were… — Elizabeth Warren

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