Attack Quote by Murray Rothbard

The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.

— Roger Babson

“But the deepest problem was the intervention, the lack of faith in the marketplace. Government management of the late 1920s and 1930s hurt the…

— Amity Shlaes

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private…

— Milton Friedman

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock market and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Fighting unemployment by methods far more costly than the opening of bread lines and soup kitchens would not have been given serious consideration, regardless…

— Philip A. Fisher

“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the Great Depression…

— Rutger Bregman

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

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't…

— Lloyd Blankfein

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

— Steny Hoyer

“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned…

— Lucy Moore

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

— Samuel Gompers