Huey Long Quotes

• Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.

  Huey Long

  Wall, Government, Long

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• Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

  Huey Long

  America, Movement, Fascism

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• I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

  Huey Long

  Kings, Jobs, Children

  "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.

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• The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

  Huey Long

  Differences, Ankles, Ears

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• If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

  Huey Long

  America, Would Be, Program

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• How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!

  Huey Long

  Men, Long, People

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• NRA - Nuts Running America.

  Huey Long

  Running, Government, Nuts

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• One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

  Huey Long

  Government, People, Louisiana

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• Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

  Huey Long

  Kings, Men, Crowns

  Huey Long's note written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election, as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 39), 1970.

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• Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!

  Huey Long

  Government, Pie, Political

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• I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.

  Huey Long

  Country, Lasts, Jew

  "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.

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• The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

  Huey Long

  Time, Men, Good Man

  In T. Harry Williams 'Huey Long' (1969)

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• You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

  Huey Long

  School, People, Evil

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• Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.

  Huey Long

  Art, Children, School

  Number 7 in the sum and substance of the Share our Wealth program (1935), as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 74), 1970.

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• It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.

  Huey Long

  Ems, Use, Enough

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• I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

  Huey Long

  Nice, Office, Watches

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• In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

  Huey Long

  Fighting, Your Side, Political

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• I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

  Huey Long

  Dog, War, Liberty

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• Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

  Huey Long

  Religious, Long, Prejudice

  "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.

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• The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

  Huey Long

  Book, Needs, Six

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• A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

  Huey Long

  Men, Long, People

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• I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

  Huey Long

  Party, Men, Wool

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• I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

  Huey Long

  Men, Ninety Nine, Hundred

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• All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

  Huey Long

  Boys, Thinking, Long

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• God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

  Huey Long

  Let Me, Dies, Left

  "Huey Long ends epic Senate filibuster, June 13, 1935" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. June 12, 2016.

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