Emperor Sword

Famous quotes containing the words emperor and/or sword:

    We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is unsufferable.
    Hirohito, Emperor Of Japan (1901–1989)

    Oh that my Pow’r to Saving were confin’d:
    Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
    To make Examples of another Kind?
    Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
    Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
    How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
    Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
    John Dryden (1631–1700)