Huey Long Quotes

8 quotes from 7 authors

These eight snippets pull the raw pulse of early‑20th‑century American populism into focus. From anti‑Federalist roots to a governor’s fiery claim of championing the common man, the voices swing between admiration and alarm. For a wider lens, see the pages on Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan, and populist movements.

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“Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute…

Sinclair Lewis

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“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense…

eric voegelin

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American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace,…

Rick Wilson

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When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals -…

Robert Dallek

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“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister…

Jackson Burnett

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“Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing New Statesman , once pointed out that if Huey Long had only used left-wing phraseology…

Robert Conquest

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“Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!" "Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not…

Sinclair Lewis

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American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most…

Joy Reid

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