Huey Long: “Every Man a King” Address

( 1934 ) Commentary by Carl Rollyson, Baruch College, The City University of New York

“Now was it the meaning of the Declaration of Independence when it said that they held that there were certain rights that were inalienable—the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Is that right of life, my friends, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120,000,000 people?” - “Every Man a King” Address
“I believe that was the judgment and the view and the law of the Lord, that we would have to distribute wealth every so often, in order that there could not be people starving to death in a land of plenty, as there is in America today.” - “Every Man a King” Address

Huey Long (Library of Congress)

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