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 (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)

They say they don't like my methods. Well, I don't like them either. I really don't like to have to do things the way I do. I'd much rather get up before the legislature and say, 'Now this is a good law and it's for the benefit of the people, and I'd like you to vote for it in the interest of the public welfare.' Only I know that laws ain't made that way. You've got to fight fire with fire."

— Huey Long (Williams p. 748)

I used to get things done by saying please. Now I dynamite 'em out of my path."

— Huey Long

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out."

— Huey Long (Williams p. 762)

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me."

— Huey Long (Williams p. 842)

We do not propose to say that there shall be no rich men. We do not ask to divide the wealth. We only propose that, when one man gets more than he and his children and children's children can spend or use in their lifetimes, that then we shall say that such person has his share. That means that a few million dollars is the limit to what any one man can own."

— Huey Long, Share Our Wealth radio address, February 23, 1934

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 (Williams p. 708)

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 on the current tax sytem (Williams p. 707)

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 (Williams p. 637)

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, campaign speech for the re-election of Senator Hattie Caraway (D-AR), 1932 (Williams p. 589)

A mob is coming here in six months to hang the other ninety-five of you damned scoundrels, and I'm undecided whether to stick here with you or go out and lead them."

— Huey Long, Senate floor speech (Williams p. 626)

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education."

— Huey Long on his Negro policy as President (Williams p.704)

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 on Adolph Hitler (Williams p. 761)

What did the opposition have to offer? Nothing. All they could talk about was autocrats and high taxes and state debts. Well we have always had taxes, the state has always been in debt, but never until Huey Long was elected did the people get anything for their money.”

— gas station attendant (Huey Long's Regime in Louisiana, Ingham County News – Mason, MI, Feb. 20, 1936)

The lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin."

— Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith at Huey Long's memorial service, Sept. 12, 1935

His enemies — not satisfied to have the man in his grave — saw their chance to drag his name through the mud — to dig his bones from his grave where they had been placed with love and dignity and bury him a second time — this time in shame, for crimes he did not commit."

— Russell B. Long, National Press Club, Jan. 23, 1985

The national news media and cheap politicians continued to try to discredit Huey's ideas long after he was dead. Even today they can hardly mention Huey's name without kicking his corpse a few times."

— Calvit Walker, Share Our Wealth Society member

He is a creature devoid of every element of honor and decency."

— former Louisiana Governor John Parker (Williams p. 470)

He has not only common ways, but a common, sordid, dirty soul." His face betrayed that he had the qualities of the lower animals: "the greed and coarseness of the swine, the cunning of the fox, the venom of the snake, the cruel cowardice of the skulking hyena."

— Mrs. Ruffin Pleasant, former First Lady of Louisiana (Williams p. 470)

Looking back, I know that part of our failure arose from an unwillingness to approve any Long-sponsored proposal for change, regardless of its merits."

— Hodding Carter, journalist (American Mercury Magazine, 1949)

It's all very well for us to laugh over Huey. But actually we have to remember all the time that he really is one the of two most dangerous men in the Country."

— Franklin Roosevelt to Rexford Tugwell — the other "dangerous man" was identified as General Douglas McCarthur (Williams p. 640)

Others had power in their organization, but he had power in himself. And he brought them all to their knees."

— Herve Racevitch, Old Regular who joined Long (Williams p. 737)

I don't think he enriched himself. But he did have a lot of thieves around him. He spent himself. He tore his passion to tatters, as Shakespeare would put it."

— Raymond Moley, member of Franklin Roosevelt's original Brain Trust (Studs Terkel, "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression", p. 251)

They do not merely vote for him, they worship the ground he walks on. He is part of their religion."

— St. Louis Post-Dispatch correspondent on Huey's popularity, 1935 (Williams p. 762)

They don't know Huey Long. They never saw him and would not know him if he stepped off the train at our station. But they know him in name and you can't make them believe he is not their defender."

— local south Louisiana politician to New Orleans States reporter on Long's reputation as Public Service Commissioner, 1921 (Williams p. 152)

He was a crook — but he had no money; a corrupt politician — but the cost of government is third-lowest in the country; a demagogue — but he kept his campaign promises; a hillbilly — but he had no racial prejudices; an ignoramus — but he ran a business administration; a dictator — but he broadened the suffrage; an opportunist — but he had ideals."

— Washington Columnist Drew Pearson’s proposed epitaph in response to false charges against Long (reprinted in "Huey Long’s Regime in Louisiana," Ingham County News, Mason, Mich., Feb. 20, 1936)