Quotation by

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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Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Roosevelt is pointing out that the rules governing the economy are created by people, not by natural forces, so they can be changed. He emphasizes that focusing only on these so-called economic laws ignores the real suffering of starving men and women.

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