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" Let me make the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws. "
Outlook and Independent - Side 310
1901
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Mental and Moral Culture, and Popular Education

Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1844 - 264 sider
...exercise of a provident care, an anxious, if not a timid circumspection ? It was a saying of Fletcher, " let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." There has been an age, when the declaration would not have been an exaggerated one. Without...
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Raffle for a Wife

Thomas Low Nichols - 1845 - 84 sider
...fighting — work up their own cotton and chew their own tobacco." "Very well, sir; very well. Somebody has said, Let me make the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws. That was said of the days when nearly all a nation's literature was contained in its ballads....
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The Reasoner, Bind 6

1849 - 424 sider
...enthusiasm of action ? How often we have assented to the acuteness of the remark by a great man — ' Let me make the Songs of a people, and I care not who makes the Laws.' Yet we sadly err in leaving the practical value of the admission to the mere drift of habit...
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The Opal, Bind 2

1852 - 394 sider
...remark. The history of civilization, of nations, and mdeed of every individual, serves to confirm it. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes its laws," was a saying which recognized the universal supremacy of feeling and sentiment— the true springs...
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The Family Magazine, a Repository of Literary and Entertaining Knowledge

1856 - 438 sider
...MAGAZINE LITERATURE. WE have often heard quoted of late the maxim of a certain political philosopher, who said : " let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes its laws." This may be true when applied to a people whose standard of civilization obliges them to embody and utter...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Bind 19

1867 - 772 sider
...one, whose identity has quite passed from our memory into his saying, once offered the sentiment, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." It strikes the reader of Mr. I,ea's book that this sage, having his wish, would certainly...
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Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1862 - 404 sider
...into the ears, in a sweet and measured utterance that enchains the attention and enchants the heart. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws," said a celebrated statesman. • The songs, by their daily repetition, live in the mind...
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Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House

Michigan. Legislature - 1863 - 890 sider
...the ears, in a sweet and measured utterance that enchaîne the attention and enchants the heart. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws," said a celebrated statesman. The songs, by their daily repetition, live ia the mind and...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1864 - 990 sider
...for the most part, sensuous or formal. But still I cannot forget the saying of a wise man, — • " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." A sound Gospel sermon, if drowsily delivered, might have sent three-fourths of the congregation...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Bind 19

1867 - 782 sider
...one, whose identity has quite passed from our memory into his saying, once offered the sentiment, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." It strikes the reader of Mr. Lea's book that this sage, having his wish, would certainly...
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