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

— Floyd B. Olson

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Source: Speech from the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol, as quoted in Time magazine (24 April 1933)
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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