Quote #10

'I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.'

More from Huey P. Long

  1. 'Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.'
  2. 'Sure I carry a gun. Sometimes I carry four. Can't tell when somebody's going to shoot the King.'
  3. 'The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from …
  4. 'I would describe a demagogue as a politician who don't keep his promises. On that basis, I'm the first man to have power in Louisiana who …
  5. 'There is no rule so sure as that one that the same mill that grinds out fortunes above a certain size at the top, grinds out paupers at th…
  6. Regarding the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, 'Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and tha…
  7. 'People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal. I steal. But a lot of what I stole has spilled over in no-toll bridges, hospitals . . . a…
  8. To Governor Oscar K. Allen: 'Goddamn you Oscar, don't you stall around with me! I can break you as easily as I made you!'

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