 | Ferdinand Schureman Schenck - 1896 - 360 lehte
...of Moses ; it appeals to that characteristic of human nature which gave ground for the saying, " Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws." The imagery of the song is a mingling of Sinai and the plains of Moab. Nine times... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1897 - 764 lehte
...abstraction was again concreted ; it only awaited the moment of actual assault to show its vitality. ' Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws.' Let me write the aphorisms of a people, and I care not who writes their history.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 lehte
...growth of plants by electric lights and by under-ground currents. ' ' [Born 1759. Died 17SO.J "Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who...Scottish bard? Where is there another whose simple lays a*e so often on the lips or so highly treasured as his? Wherever you find a Scot his eye lights up... | |
 | Theodore Ruggles Timby - 1902 - 340 lehte
...one of nature's poetic ways of lighting the north polar regions. Literature. SOME ONE has said, " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who make the laws." We would say, Let us edit a people's literature, and we will be answerable for their sense, songs,... | |
 | William Albert Sinclair - 1905 - 396 lehte
...alive the thirst for liberty. It is but another illustration of the wisdom of the man who said : "Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who may write their laws." The negroes hoodwinked the master class by humming the music of this particular... | |
 | Henry Hutchinson Montgomery - 1907 - 454 lehte
...alive the thirst for liberty. It is but another illustration of the wisdom of the man who said, ' Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who may write their laws.' " The negroes hoodwinked the master class by humming the music of this particular... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1907 - 740 lehte
...citizens." In March Wilkeson went to Boston to strengthen the loan with the press of that city. "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes its loans," said he in a letter to Mr. Cooke. "Let me write the seven-thirty editorials and I... | |
 | Northern Oratorical League - 1909 - 286 lehte
...The ideals of a state are far more important than its statutes. When the poet-philosopher said: "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who writes their laws," he meant that the destiny of the state, like the destiny of the individual, is... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - 1909 - 452 lehte
...aroused to action and specially susceptible to the influence of song. It was a wise man who said : " Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes the laws." There is more meaning in this expression than at first appears. The two most popular... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1910 - 394 lehte
...Americans. Healthy patriotism can be sentimental, but it must be intelligent. Said the philosopher: "Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who make their laws." That day has passed, never to return. Steam and electricity have broken the spell. Revolutions... | |
| |
Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws. 
