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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:36:31 +0000

Note also the context of Andrew Fletcher’s original statement. After saying, “I knew a very wise man [who] … believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation,” Fletcher’s very next sentence reads, “And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of any city without the help of a lyric, and sometimes of a dramatic poet.” Certainly, Fletcher himself had Plato in mind.

Even though the quote is not from Plato, Fletcher (and the “very wise man” whose sentiment he is quoting) are conscientiously articulating the idea which they previously found in Plato. So the quote is later, but Fletcher himself attributes Plato with the sentiment behind it. Donald Grout probably recognized that in Fletcher, and was affirming it in his own statement which you helpfully identified, above.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:33:01 +0000

naicisum, are you saying the Greek there could reasonably be translated into the quotation in question?

Care to exposit?

By: naicisum

naicisum — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:05:57 +0000

The Republic, Book IV 424c

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By: Will

Will — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:30:46 +0000

Yikes. Does your Dad really make the laws, Austin?

By: Dad

Dad — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:32:09 +0000

“American reactionaries have gone in more for quote making than American radicals. This is possibly because the former feel more of a need for authoritative quotes than the latter.” Paul F. Boller and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (Oxford, 1989), x.

In any case, let me make the laws, and I’ll ban the songs from the airwaves and close down any show that uses them.