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

— Floyd B. Olson

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Source: First inaugural address (7 January 1931)
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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.

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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.

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