Mary Elizabeth Lease famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Kansas #Corn #Corny
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Two #Hype #People
The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Country #Children #Home
What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Needs #Corn #Hell
We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Home #Sharks #Government
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the masterâ€¦Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Country #Wall #Government
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

#Party #Home #Writing

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.
Space is going to be commonplace.
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Mary Elizabeth Lease famous quotes

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