Famous quotes containing the words emperor and/or referred:
“I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King—my republican feelings and principles forbid it—the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)