Who said it?

[VirginiaHuguenot]

"Let me make a nation's songs and I care not who makes its laws!"

Who said it?

I'm not sure but I think it was Thomas Carlyle but I can't confirm it. Any thoughts?

 

[RamistThomist]

I also think it was Carlyle, but I think my source for Carlyle is something I read in Schaeffer

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

I confirmed this similar quote by one Andrew Fletcher (Scottish politician, 1655-1716): "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation."

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Andrew Fletcher