 | Frederick Francis Cook - 1910 - 560 lehte
...out of the common should stir the blood and help to fix the resolution. Who was it that said, "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes its laws"? But great songs have no fixed habitation. Indeed, frequently they are popularized... | |
 | James Henderson Blount - 1912 - 708 lehte
...return us to our own beloved home. Army Song of the Philippines under MacArthur^ SOME one has said, "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws." Give me the campaign songs of a war, and I will so write the history of that war... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 448 lehte
...than hooks of steel. He was a wise statesman, though he may never have held an office, who said, "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws." Why is the "Marseillaise" prohibited in Prance? Sir, "Hail Columbia" and the "Star... | |
 | 1914 - 404 lehte
...a music-box from which were pouring a dozen of our popular songs and under it were the words, ' Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who writes the laws. ' Compare with this the humour of Dingbat, Mutt and Jeff, or Rhino the Monk. Notice,... | |
 | Massachusetts Bar Association - 1914 - 176 lehte
...distinguished father the verdict of posterity will not accord with the judgment of him who said : " Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws." Mr. Hutchins, I now commit this portrait to the care of the Social Law Library,... | |
 | Northern Oratorical League - 1916 - 366 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... | |
 | 1927 - 656 lehte
...they inspire heroism and noble deeds on the field of battle. It has been said by some one: — "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who writes their laws." And it certainly is true that deep feelings of patriotism are stirred in the hearts... | |
 | Pat Morris Neff - 1925 - 334 lehte
...death. It adds solemnity to the marriage altar, and gives hope to the grave. A patriot once said, 'Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws.' It is not surprising that nearly all of the Empires and Republics of the world have... | |
 | 1926 - 160 lehte
...intent and pernicious in their consequences. The aphorism is attributed to Fletcher of Saltoun : "Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." The writers of these meretricious books with hope of far-reaching results, might,... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1909 - 860 lehte
...substantially the same with perhaps occasional additions from time to time. It has been said " Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who writes their laws." The world's estimate of a nation, or any lesser aggregation of men, is certainly... | |
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Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws. 
