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I wonder why he shot me.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Last Words
Shots
Wonder
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NRA - Nuts Running America.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Running
Government
Nuts
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'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Kings
Men
Long
Slogans
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Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Kings
Men
Crowns
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I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
People
Voice
Want
Shut
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Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Funny
Work
Damn
Hard Work
Monogamy
Overrated
Umpires
Work Hard Work Hard
Near
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God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Dies
Left
Let Me
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For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
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I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
War
Dog
Liberty
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The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Good
Men
Time
Good Man
Rise Above
Come
Time Good Men
Above
Rise
Good Men
Principle
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I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Men
Hundred
Ninety Nine
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It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Ems
Enough
Use
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All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Boys
Long
Thinking
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If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
America
Program
Would Be
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Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
America
Fascism
Movement
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A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Men
Long
People
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In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Fighting
Political
Your Side
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Men
Party
Wool
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Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Opportunity
Giving
Long
Treats
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One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Government
Louisiana
People
Good Government People
Days
Good Government
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Men
Giving
Littles
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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 / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Long
Prejudice
Religious
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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 / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Long
Poor
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Book
Needs
Six
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Nice
Office
Watches
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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 / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Country
Jew
Lasts
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Ankles
Differences
Ears
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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 / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Feet
Ignorant
Long
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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 / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Jobs
Kings
Children
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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!
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Government
Pie
Political
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Despair
Play
Trying
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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!
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Men
Long
People
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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.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Evil
People
School
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Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.
Huey Long / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Government
Long
Wall
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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 / Former Governor Of Louisiana
Art
Opportunity
Children
School
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