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Quotes from Mary Elizabeth Lease

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