Famous quotes from the great depression

A grown man would work all day, hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

In other periods of depression , it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope—nothing of man. Can you imagine what it must have been like , living without fear that some power-mad politician would drop a hydrogen bomb down over millions of innocent people? I didn’t want to wake up.

I was having a much better time asleep. While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. President Hoover , We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out. Passion makes a person stop. The early thirties brought what liberal economists called the great depression and Marxist economists described as the great crisis of capitalism. It dawned on me that the economic world order was unreliable, unstable, an most of all, iniquitous. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline.

We could have spent trillions in research or education instead.

Top Herbert Hoover Quotes That Still Hold True. He was also an illustrious businessman and engineer besides being a renowned politician. The Christian Science Monitor - an independent daily newspaper providing context and clarity on national and international news, peoples and cultures, and social trends. He was charismatic and innovative at a time when the United States needed exactly that kind of leadership.

Depression is when you lose yours. My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Patty Duke You largely constructed your depression. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically. The high tide of prosperity will continue. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. Instea readers and historians have had to guess about her mental health from the tone of her work and how she lived.

It started in the United States and spread to other countries around the worl particularly in Europe. I see that it is now yearning. Scout adds, however, that there is a vague optimism for some because people have been told that they had nothing to fear but fear itself, the famous words of FDR. Janet Fitch At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. Dorothy Hamill We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia—is less accessible to treatment.

These quotes on depression and depression sayings deal with different aspects of the illness such as grief, sadness, loneliness and other related issues.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. These were very intelligent people back in their time. Their thoughts on what would happen next were way off the mark.

What was sai sounded good and was reassuring. No need for the heroic. He appointed Iowa’s Henry A. Roosevelt, governor of New York.

Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture, and Wallace quickly created a very ambitious plan to raise farm prices.