Huey Long Quotes

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

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#2. 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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#3. For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.

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#4. If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag.

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#5. 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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#6. I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised as 100 percent Americanism.

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#15. I wonder why he shot me ?

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Every man a king - that's my slogan.

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

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

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

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

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

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#27. Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

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

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

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

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