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Franklin D. Roosevelt

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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Roosevelt is saying that economic rules are created by people, not by natural forces, so they can be changed. He points out that relying on these rules without question leads to suffering, like hunger, because they are not fixed or inevitable.

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