Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Huey Long

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "the Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.

American - Politician | August 30, 1893 - September 10, 1935

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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.

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

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I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

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Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

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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!

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They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

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'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

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I wonder why he shot me.

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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.

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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.

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For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

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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.

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

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

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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!

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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.

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You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

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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.

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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.

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Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

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

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NRA - Nuts Running America.

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