“If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!”
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
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
This quote and variations on it are often frequently attributed to others; one story, usually heard outside the United States, has an unnamed "U.S. congressman" saying it in a television interview; for example, see http://ontrapranur.blogspot.com/2008/05/if-english-was-good-enough-for-jesus.html
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Miriam A. Ferguson 1
American politician 1875–1961Related quotes
“If English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible, it should be good enough for Coke.”
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http://thewackydeli.com/top10mbgaffes: “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for every child in America to speak.”, likely based on an apocryphal quote attributed to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, “If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!”
regarding a 2014 Coca-Cola television advertisement featuring Americans of various ethnicities singing "America the Beautiful" in various languages.
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“The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.”
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 85.
“If it’s good enough for the cosmos, it’s good enough for humankind.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
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“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”
Source: Notorious Pleasures
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“Why was my own dress good enough to live in, and not good enough to die in?”
Diogenes Laertius