On the off-chance that there were some non-believers in his audiences, Long had to find some other source than the Bible to show that his plans were the plans of all thinking people throughout history. And who did Americans revere almost as much as the Almighty?

The beloved Founding Fathers of our Republic.

The founding document of the nation gets a fair amount of airtime in "Every Man a King." If you want to talk about equality, look no further than the Declaration of Independence. Ditto if you want to demonstrate that everyone is entitled to a life of liberty and happiness. Long goes right to quoting that document in the 6th line of his speech.

It's a little more surprising that Long also brings in the ancient Greek philosophers, because it's unlikely that his listeners knew as much about them as they did the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. Still, Socrates and Plato get a shout-out for commenting on the destructive results of too much concentrated wealth, and it adds to Long's credibility that he can show some familiarity with these guys. It also says to Long's audience that what he's proposing is only what wise men have been saying since the beginning of time.

Personally, we might have also thrown in a few lines from a Noble Laureate in Literature:

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.
I heard one person starve and many people laughing.
Where hunger was ugly, where souls are forgotten…

Because you know what Long warned the rich folks: A hard rain's a-gonna fall.