Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/6/2011 03:45 PM, Ken Hirsch wrote:
>Congressional Record—House
>Volume 81, p. 2528
>March 19, 1937
>http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/getdoc?CONG-RECORD-ID=CR-1937-0319
>Congressman Charles Binderup on the floor of the House of Representatives:
>
>   It was Henry Ford who said, in substance, this: “It 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.”
>
>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:

Not to mention Father Coughlin.

Joel


>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.
>
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