The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65375 Message #1077806
Posted By: Amos
22-Dec-03 - 12:28 PM
Thread Name: Hooray For Songwriters!
Subject: RE: Hooray For Songwriters!
That quotation -- "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who writes its laws" -- was I believe originally from Seneca, but in the mad morass of irresponsible documentation called the Internet it is currently attributed to Daniel O'Connell, Andrew Fletcher, Cicero, Paul SOuthern, and "a Greek philosopher". If anyone has an authoritative citation establishing its orignal provenance I'd be grateful to know it.