Agriculture Quote by John Bright

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

There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to…

— Andrew Robb

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will…

— Murray Rothbard

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

— Samuel Gompers

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

— Ludwig von Mises

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

— Lester R. Brown

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

— Jim Rogers

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

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major…

— Molly Ivins

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are…

— Richard Attias

In my family, depression is spoken of in hushed tones. As farmers we have always ploughed through our feelings.

— John Whaite