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Roosevelt on Republicans and the Free Market
“Our Republican leaders tell us economic laws–sacred, inviolable, unchangeable–cause panics which no one could prevent. 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.”
Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on July 2, 1932 (The American Presidency Project)
Plus ça change, plus ce’st la même chose. *Sigh.*