Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor Quotations

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Quotations

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was a Central European monarch from the House of Habsburg.

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Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus.
- Let justice be done, though the world perish.
  - Motto, quoted in Locorum Communium Collectanea (1563)

I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.
- Ferdinand I of Austria, quoted in The Fall of the House of Habsburg (1963) by Edward Crankshaw