Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ken, an amazing and valuable database!  I'll be using in often!  Many thanks!

JL

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Garson O'Toole
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> Thanks for locating those great citations, Ken. And many thanks for
> pointing out the existence of that remarkable database.
> Garson
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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ken Hirsch <kenhirsch at ftml.net> wrote:
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>> Congressional Record=97House
>> Volume 81, p. 2528
>> March 19, 1937
>> http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/getdoc?CONG-RECORD-ID=3DCR-1937-0319
>> Congressman Charles Binderup on the floor of the House of Representatives:
>>
>>  It was Henry Ford who said, in substance, this: =93It is perhaps well
>>  enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our
>>  banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be
>>  a revolution before tomorrow morning.=94
>>
>> Binderup's speech was also printed in
>> Social Justice, Father Coughlin's Weekly Review
>> Volume  III, No. 16 (April 19, 1937), pp. 5,10
>> "Depression Plotted by Federal Reserve, Charge of Binderup"
>> http://www.unz.org/Publication/SocialJustice-1937apr19
>>
>>
>> I have a very low opionion of Binderup's reliability, since he
>> is responsible for popularizing the "Colonial Scrip" hoax:
>>
>> http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new=
>> -england-prosperous/
>>
>>
>> The attribution of the "revolution before morning" quote to Andrew Jackson
>> is almost certainly an example of what I like to call "quotum
>> entanglement". The alleged Ford quote no doubt appeared next to some
>> similarly-themed quote from Andrew Jackson and someone copied it with the
>> attribution that appeared before the quote instead of after (or vice
>> versa). I once found a quote from John William Gardner attributed to James
>> Garfield for no apparent reason except that the quotes must have been
>> sorted alphabetically by author.
>>
>> Please note this new source of searchable texts, many from the 20th century=
>> :
>>
>>  http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllBooks?View=3DSearch
>>  http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllPeriodicals?View=3DSearch
>>
>>
>> Ken Hirsch
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