![In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' . . . [It's one more] striking example of inability to learn from experience.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-the-great-depression-things-could-only-be-set-right-by-causing-the-idle-plant.jpg)
Related Quotes
country children rich-countries
We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? Alexandra Paul
country lines bigs
The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
country driving ifs
How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to. Alexandra Fuller
country few invested realized
But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me. Robert MacNeil
country
I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it. Robert Klein
country taken
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession. Malcolm McDowell
country doubt game meddle rules
Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism. Tony Blair
country front line teams
LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous. Mark Gottfried
country fourth highest legal rate
making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants. John Ashcroft
believe atheism resistance
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
believe chance
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. Italo Calvino
believe change field method
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
believe
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
believes clinton public quite strongly
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service. Peter Jennings
believe ownership work
I don't believe in the ownership of work. Richard Rogers
believe searching toward truly wave
What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent? Rick Perlstein
believed book constantly cope current east fathers fought great middle produced trying war wrote
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization. Robert Fisk
believe music side
I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect. Robert Palmer
white ideas dresses
I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me. Diane Kruger
white african-american
I go out with white women. This... Dennis Rodman
white issues female
Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines. Dennis Prager
white america perception
Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.
white chicago white-christmas
Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas. Dennis Franz
white volunteer house
When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access. Dee Dee Myers
white house presidential
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. Eleanor Clift
white lines throat
I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats. Eldridge Cleaver
white
'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film. Kym Whitley