Great depression Quote by Robert J. Gordon

“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.”

— Charles River Editors

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

— Jon Meacham

“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Behind every tremendous depression; there is a amazing life.”

— I'm Salmiah

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system…

— Andrew Feinstein

“We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The most important fact about the war to most people was that if it ended suddenly, Earth’s economy would collapse.”

— Joe Haldeman

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the…

— Pat Buchanan

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

— Andy Rooney