Famous quotes containing the words frederick ii, john and/or frederick:
“Our work ... is to present things that are as they are.”
—Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194–1250)
“I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)
“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)