If English was good enough for Jesus...

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Rudy,

it seems this is a old urban myth and the quote usually attributed to
Texas governor Ma Ferguson. It was discussed a number of times on
Language Log, e.g.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003084.html

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Rudy Troike <rtroike at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> I doubt whether anyone would be able to track that down, unless there is
> an archive of transcripts of sermons by evangelical preachers on border
> Mexican radio stations. I heard the attribution to one of them back in
> the 1950s before TV was around. It's probably been in the pipeline for
> a long time.
>
>   Rudy
>