This historian says that even though we’ll never repeat the history that Churchill went through, but the situations are the same and won’t really change. (You found some more quotes that express sentiments that still have relevance today.) Right, the first is: �In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.� One thing we should say about Churchill is that candidates on both the right and left have long claimed him as one of their own and this speaks to that. (You also found a quote that speaks about Churchill’s concerns about finance, and this is from 1932). Yes, in the middle of the Great Depression and this is a part of Churchill’s letter to his stock broker: �I do not think America is going to smash [�] they’re going to have a strong resurgence in the near future.�
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