Quotes about Populist Party

Andrew Jackson

Equal Rights for All, Special Privileges for None.

Jackson was a great champion of equality and equal rights, but for whites only. He had no problem with Negro Slavery and had a major bias against Indians. He was the only U. S President to refuse to obey a decision of the Supreme Court when he forced the removal of the Cherokee Indians from their lands and forced them to the Oklahoma Territory.

Ignatius Donnelly

The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.

Populist Party

We regard the maintenance of a large standing army of mercenaries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a menace to our liberties, and we demand its abolition.

Populist Party

All lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.

Populist Party

We oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corporation for any purpose.

Ed Gillespie

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

Annie LaPorte Diggs

For the first time in the life of the great republic, there was a political organization which grappled directly and fundamentally with the growing injustice which marked the dealings between Exploiters and the Exploited

New York Times

...A swashbuckling, nagging, vulgar scold, indifferent to the amenities...

Populist Party

We demand a graduated income tax.

Populist Party

We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange.

James Baird Weaver

Rigid regulation of inter-State commerce is needed.

Weaver was ahead of his time. 7 years later, Congress would pass the first Interstate Commerce Act that began to regulate the railroads. Many others would follow.

Ignatius Donnelly

The silly ancestors of the Americans called it "national development" when they imported millions of foreigners to take up the public lands and left nothing for their own children.

He was the one who wrote the popularization of the Lost City of Atlantis

Ignatius Donnelly

We seek to restore the Government of the Republic to the hands of the ‘plain people’ with whom it originated,

Populist Party Quotes