 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1925 - 72 lapas
...public weal, in its influence towards shaping the character and ideals of the people. The old saying, "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws," suggests a great truth. With equal fidelity to truth it may be altered: "Let me publish the text books... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States. Meeting - 1917 - 886 lapas
...ideal of democracy. Besides our great body of patriotic literature, we have our songs. Someone has said, "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes the laws." There is much in the folklore, the myths, and the literature of our own and of foreign lands... | |
 | Music Teachers National Association - 1927 - 304 lapas
...particularized as some might wish, was in its general effect a godsend to man. I think it was Daniel O'Connor who said, '' Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." Just what did he mean by that? The phrase would bring a smile of contempt to the face of many a philosopher,... | |
 | Music Teachers National Association - 1916 - 332 lapas
...consideration by trained musicians. Let us not pass by as mere fancy that oft-quoted saying, "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." After we have spread the belief, which will take effect in action, that music can be produced by practically... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - 1928 - 464 lapas
...semibarbarous people to higher things. This reminds us of the western idea as expressed in the words: "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." For that way lies power. "It is impossible," Confucius said once, "for a vicious man to be a good musician."... | |
 | Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) - 1928 - 492 lapas
...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation" ; or, as the modern paraphrase has it, "Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws." In other words the springs of conduct come from the heart. Hence the importance of children's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1933 - 914 lapas
...say a word, might I say this: I am reminded of the man who wrote to the Frenchman, I think, saying: "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." conditions in the home, in the home of the people who are voiceless, who are suffering, in the home... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1933 - 1336 lapas
...say a word, might I say this: I ani reminded of the man who wrote to the Frenchman, I think, saying: "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes »s laws." Ladies and gentlemen, my appeal to you lies outside of laws and a good deal outside of the... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1925 - 344 lapas
...child's heart and voice that by and by, he will recall as his familiar carols. Who said, "Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws?" Christmas songs are very important in a Christian land. There are so many music books that I, not knowing... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1920 - 580 lapas
...glades Of rebuilt woods in France ! THE AUTHOR OF "HOME, SWEET HOME" By CARSON C. HATHAWAY SOME one has said, ''Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes her laws." If this sentiment is a worthy one and poets are more powerful than statesmen, John Howard... | |
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Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. 
