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Floyd B. Olson

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Also known as Floyd Olson, Floyd Bjørnstjerne Olson, Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson

22nd governor of Minnesota (1891-1936)

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2014

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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.
  • We are assembled during the most crucial period in the history of our State and of our Nation. An army of unemployed, some 200,000 homeless and wandering boys, thousands of abandoned farms, an ever-increasing number of mortgage foreclosures, and thousands of people in want and poverty are evidences not only of an economic depression but of the failure of government and of our social system to function in the interest of the common happiness of the people.
  • If I were asked to name the greatest tragedy that has followed in the wake of the depression, I would say that it has been the destructive effect upon the morale of our youth. If I were asked to name the chief victim of the present heartless order I would not hesitate to say "youth."
  • Today we are endeavoring to save the system we call Capitalism, by attempting to curb selfish individualism, and the avaricious profit motive. [...] That there will be anything left of the so-called Capitalistic system, when the ultimate changes take place, is very doubtful, that there will be great change is certain.
  • 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. If his living standard has not been beaten down to the level of the Russian peasant of the Czarist days, it is due to the demands the organized worker has been able to enforce. The former has benefited from the struggles and sacrifices of the latter.

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date of birth
1891-11-13
date of death
1936-08-22
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National Governors Association biography URL
www.nga.org/governor/floyd-bjornstjerne-olson
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