Famous quotes containing the words frederick ii, emperor and/or frederick:
“Our work ... is to present things that are as they are.”
—Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194–1250)
“Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)