Quotes about Huey P.

I. F. Stone

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

See {585638} for the kind of statement that led people to fear him as a dictator.

Huey Long

Every Man A King

Actually originated by William Jennings Bryan in a 1900 campaign speech. See {640984} . The slogan became the name and first line of a poem and also a song. See {609937}

William Jennings Bryan

America should be ... a republic in which every citizen is a sovereign, but in which no one cares or dares to wear a crown.

Huey P. Long credited this quotation for the origin of his famous slogan, "Every Man a King, but No Man Wears a Crown”. See {609936}

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

Harold L. Ickes

[Huey Long is] suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect.

Kenneth D. McKellar

Mr. President, in carrying out my conscientious views I greatly regret that it is sometimes necessary for me to vote on the same side with the Senator from Louisiana [Huey P. Long]; but when I do so, I wish to assure the Senator from Louisiana that it makes me feel doubtful of my own position... The Senator is so generally wrong that I can hardly believe that he is right any time.

Huey Long

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.

later also a song sung at his campaigns and rallies

Alben W. Barkley

You are the smartest lunatic I have ever seen in my whole life.

Long took it as a compliment.

Huey P. Quotes