You want to pick up the marbles, but you don't want to get your hands dirty. And all of a sudden, I came along and put a bat in your hand and I said, 'Go ahead, judge, start swinging,' and you did, and you had a wonderful time. You sat in that big easy chair of yours for thirty years and played at being a judge. And it is the right of the people that they shall not be deprived of hope.
That any man that produces anything can take it to market without paying toll, and no poor man's land or farm can be taxed or taken away from him. And it is your right that every child should have a complete education. And it is your right, do you hear me? It is your right.
#All things done with ease hicks free
To heal sickness, to ease pain, free - not as a charity but as a right. Any man, woman, or child who is sick or in pain can go through those doors and know that everything will be done for them that man can do.
Now listen to me, you hicks! Listen to me, and lift up your eyes and look at God's blessed and unfly-blown truth. Yeah, you're hicks too, and they fooled you a thousand times just like they fooled me. Look at him.! Now, shut up! Shut up, all of ya! Now listen to me, ya hicks. There he is! There's your Judas Iscariot! Look at him!. All those fellas in the striped pants, they saw that hick and they took him in. He was just a country boy who thought that even the plainest, poorest man can be Governor if his fellow citizens find he's got the stuff for the job. He looked in his heart and he thought in all humility, how he'd like to try and change things. And some of the politicians down in the city, they knew that, so they rode up to his house in a big, fine, shiny car and said as how they wanted him to run for Governor.And he swallowed it. The people were his friends because he'd fought that rotten brick. And it also came to him with the powerful force of God's own lightning back in his home county when the school building collapsed 'cause it was built of politics' rotten brick. How he could do nothin' for himself without the help of the people. Naw, naw, he started off thinkin' of number one. He didn't start off thinkin' about the hicks and all the wonderful things he was gonna do for 'em. He studied law, because he thought he might be able to change things some - for himself and for folks like him. He figured if he was gonna get anything done, well, he had to do it himself. Aw, this hick knew what it was to be a hick, all right. He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse. He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm. It's about a hick, a hick like you, if ya please. It's a funny story so get ready to laugh.Get ready to bust your sides laughin', 'cause it's sure a funny story. Did you ever hear it rumble for hunger? And you, what about your crops? Did they ever rot in the field because the road was so bad you couldn't get 'em to market? And you, what about your kids? Are they growin' up ignorant as dirt, ignorant as you 'cause there's no school for 'em? Naw, I'm not gonna read you any speech.
Have they got holes in the knees? Listen to your stomach. You are the state and you know what you need. There's no need in my telling you what this state needs. It's a speech about what this state needs. My friends, my friends, I have a speech here. They're interested in welfare, sure, but it's their own. The County Commissioners would have you believe that they're interested in public welfare. Why? Well, they'll tell ya the reason is the job will be done better. The County Commissioners rejected the low bid on the schoolhouse. Why have they used every dirty method known to make sure I'm not elected County Treasurer? Well, I'll tell ya why - because they're afraid of the truth, and the truth is this.
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