Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes

• What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Needs, Corn, Hell

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• 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 master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Country, Wall, Government

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• El gran pueblo llano de este país es esclavo, y el monopolio es el amo. . . . Los políticos dicen que sufrimos de sobreproducción. Sobreproducción, cuando 10.000 niños pequeños, según las estadísticas, mueren de hambre cada año en los Estados Unidos. . . . Permaneceremos junto a nuestros hogares y junto a nuestra chimenea por la fuerza si es necesario, y no pagaremos nuestras deudas a las compañías usureras hasta que el gobierno pague sus deudas con nosotros.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  País, Niños, Hogar

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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, Government, Sharks

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• Será mejor que Kansas deje de cultivar maíz y empiece a cultivar el infierno.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Kansas, Corn, Hell

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