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Huey Long
22 quotes
“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election. Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39
“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Every Man a King (1933), p. 277
“Your country is calling you. Our people are calling us. The people of America are calling us to relieve them from the distress that has infested this entire Nation as the result of following the Cabinet officers of the present administration. Your people are asking you to deliver them from this condition that now exists. They are asking relief.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in the Senate, May 16, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10,307. Suzy Platt (ed.) Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 253, no. 1,342
“I do not want the voice of the people shut out.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in the Senate, May 16, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10297. Platt, Respectfully Quoted (1989), p. 252, no. 1,341
“Here is Democracy's opportunity. Here is the opportunity to be of service to the people. Here is the chance for this party to have been of service to the people of the United States. Here is our chance to have been of help to the poor man. Here is our chance to have relieved him of the burdens and to have given him the benefits of a government that could have promoted the enterprises and furnished the conveniences and the facilities needed by every man, woman, and child in this country.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in the Senate, May 17, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10,349. Platt, Respectfully Quoted (1989), p. 84, no. 419
“So I came to Washington, where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore; not that I do not respect this as a good part of America but in its general routine the heart of America is felt less here than at any place I have ever been.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in the Senate, May 17, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10,393. Platt, Respectfully Quoted (1989), p. 368, no. 1,973
“No man has ever been President of the United States more than two terms. You know that; everyone knows that. But when I get in, I'm going to abolish the , have universal suffrage, and I defy any sonofabitch to get me out under four terms.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response by Long during an interview with the journalist Forrest Davis, 1933. Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 83
“We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech, 1933, Congressional Record, 72d Cong, 2d sess., vol. 76. Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 55
“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 (1893–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Share our Wealth (1935), no. 7 of "the whole sum and substance of the share-our-wealth movement". Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 74
“Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his intended Negro policy as President, c. 1935. T. Harry Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 704
“I wonder why he shot me.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said on September 8, 1935 on his way to the hospital after being shot outside the State Capitol. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 866
“We started them to school. They learned to read. They learned to work simple arithmetic problems. Now some of our plantation owners can't figure the poor devils out of everything at the close of each year.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Negro education. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 524
“The trouble is, Roosevelt hasn't taken all of my ideas; just part of them. I'm about one hundred yards ahead of him. We're on the same road, but I'm here and he's there.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 637
“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.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As Governor. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 704
“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 (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 706
“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.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 706
“Whenever this administration has gone to the left I have voted for it, and whenever it has gone to the right I have voted against it.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the New Deal. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 708
“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 (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 761
“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 (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 761
“Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and that when I call him a sonofabitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When the head of the Ku Klux Klan, Hiram W Evans, threatened to campaign against Long in Louisiana. Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression (Random House Digital, 2011)
“And it is here under this oak where Evangeline waited for her lover, Gabriel, who never came. This oak is an immortal spot, made so by Longfellow's poem, but Evangeline is not the only one who has waited here in disappointment. Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that have never come? Where are the roads and the highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled? Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but it lasted through only one lifetime. Your tears in this country, around this oak, have lasted for generations. Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here!”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech given during the 1928 gubernatorial election. Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 40
“Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have had no college education. I have not even had a high school education. But the things that takes me far in politics is that I do not have to color what comes into my mind and into my heart. I say it unvarnished. I say it without veneer. I have not the learning to do otherwise, and therefore my ignorance is often not detected.I know the hearts of the People because I have not colored my own. I know when I am right in my own conscience. I do not talk one way in the cloakroom and another way out here. I do not talk one way back there in the hills of Louisiana and another way here in the Senate.I have one language. Ignorant as it is, it is the universal language within the sphere in which I operate. Its simplicity gains pardon for my lack of letters and education.Nonetheless my voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: U.S. Senate floor speech, March 5, 1935, Congressional Record, vol. 79, p. 1,934