Great Depression Quotes - Page 3

• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Country, Spring

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  Irving Fisher

  Funny, Depression, Money

  "Incoming Presidential Speech: International Society for the Systems Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting" by Peter Corning, complexsystems.org. June 02, 2015.

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• 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 very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.

  Will Rogers

  Wall, Fighting, Blood

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• 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 kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Gentleman, Too Late

  "False Hope: Famous Quotes During the Great Depression", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2009.

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• 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 Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

  William Julius Wilson

  Hard Times, African American, Groups

  New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• 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 to make some easy money quick.

  Will Rogers

  Gambling, Debt, Easy

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• Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Struggle, People

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• The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

  Julian Barnes

  Depression, Spring, Levels

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• It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

  Noam Chomsky

  Population, World, Unemployed

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• The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

  Stuart Chase

  Depression, Years, America

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• But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

  Nick Rahall

  Pain, War, September 11

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• The Government's business is in sound condition.

  Andrew Mellon

  Government, Sound, Conditions

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• I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Years, Reason Why, Should

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• Financial storm definitely passed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Storm, Financial

  "False Hope: Famous Quotes During the Great Depression". www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2009.

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• FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH

  Irving Fisher

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• Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

  James Surowiecki

  Wall, Long, World

  "The Stock Spinners". www.slate.com. January 16 1998.

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• The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agriculture, Government, Tough Times

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• [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Peaceful

  Source: progressive.org

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• Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I can guarantee you if your housing values have crashed and you've lost most of your pension and you've lost your job, you're going to be pretty angry.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Fighting, Frustration

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Home, Might, Worried

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• 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 known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

  Veronica Webb

  Mean, Army, Government

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• What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

  Ted Martinez

  Economic, Needed, Reasonable

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• When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

  James K. Glassman

  People, Dots, Economic

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