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)
“The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)