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Floyd B. Olson Quotes

1891–1936 United States

Floyd Bjørnstjerne Olson (13 November 1891 – 22 August 1936) was the 22nd Governor of Minnesota, serving from January 1931 until his death from stomach cancer in August 1936. Initially entering politics as the Hennepin County Attorney, he unsuccessfully ran as the Farmer–Labor nominee in the 1924 Minnesota gubernatorial election, and, after refusing attempts by Farmer–Laborites to draft him in the 1926 and 1928 gubernatorial elections, he later became the first Farmer–Labor governor, leading Minnesota through the economic crisis of the Great Depression, becoming one of the most influential Ame

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We believe in restoring prosperity by restoring the purchasing power of the man at the bottom.

The freedom of speech and the press should remain inviolate and any law which constitutes an entering wedge into that inviolability is unsafe.

A nation cannot be preserved which does not preserve its citizens.

I hope the present system of government goes right down to hell.

This has got me. Don't worry; it must be all for the best.

The unorganized worker owes a debt of gratitude to his organized brother.

Keynote address (1932)

I want, however, an orderly, a sane, and a constructive change.

Farmer–Labor convention address (1934)

Just how that is going to solve our economic problems is beyond understanding.

Now I am frank to say that I am not a liberal.

Farmer–Labor convention address (1934)

I am what I want to be—I am a radical.

Farmer–Labor convention address (1934)

Never has the Republican party, both nationally and locally, been quite so low in morale and so bankrupt in ideas as today. It has stood like a man dazed, watching the parade go by, and not knowing what it is all about.

Farmer–Labor convention address (1934)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Floyd B. Olson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.