HUEY LONG

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

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

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

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

I used to try and get things done by saying please. Now I dynamite them out of the way.

The governor’s mansion was not good enough for me, although it was too good for my predecessor.

Anyone here own 4 suits? Three suits? Even 2 suits? Well J. P. Morgan has over 100 suits, each one stolen off the back of a working man.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Share the Wealth

I’m the constitution around here now.

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.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

I came to Washington where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore.

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

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

Every Man A King

Every Man a King, Every Man a King; For you can be a millionaire; There's Something belonging to others; There's enough for all people to share.

Governor of Louisiana By the Grace of the People

… great contest for commercial supremacy.

… grinning devils

Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign.

So, we have in America today, my friends, a condition by which about 10 men dominate the means of activity in at least 85 percent of the activities that you own. They either own directly everything or they have got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be excepted. They own the banks, they own the steel mills, they own the railroads, they own the bonds, they own the mortgages, they own the stores, and they have chained the country from one end to the other

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.

The wealth of this land must be immediately redistributed among its 125 million people if America is to be saved as a country.

This state shows every need for a constructive administration, devoted to the protection and expansion of labor and capital, industry, and agriculture, all working toward the efficiency of our courts, public schools, freedom in religious beliefs and reduction in taxation and burdens of government, and toward liberating our state and our institutions from the ever growing modern tendency of monopoly and concentration of power