Frases de Miriam A. Ferguson

Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson foi a primeira mulher a governar o estado americano do Texas, de 25 de janeiro de 1925 a 17 de janeiro de 1927. Voltou a governar o estado texano de 17 de janeiro de 1933 a 15 de janeiro de 1935. Tambem foi a primeira-dama do Texas durante o mandato de James E. Ferguson. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Junho 1875 – 25. Junho 1961
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Miriam A. Ferguson: Frases em inglês

“If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!”

Miriam A. Ferguson

Attributed, for example, by http://web.archive.org/20090806185021/www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/article.asp?parentid=2198, which contains a common version of the story, where Ferguson says this while holding a bible and defending her objection to the teaching of Spanish in Texas public schools <br class="br">According to http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003084.html, a variation on this quote is reported in the New York Times on May 23, 1881, but no record of Ferguson having said this, or anything like it, could be found <br class="br">This quote and variations on it are often frequently attributed to others; one story, usually heard outside the United States, has an unnamed &quot;U.S. congressman&quot; saying it in a television interview; for example, see http://ontrapranur.blogspot.com/2008/05/if-english-was-good-enough-for-jesus.html <br class="br">Misattributed