Why not?
They are slight different in nature and contrastively used as the command words in the question.

Quote; here it means to provide any related statement to support the given idea in the question like quote the sayings of Quaid's regarding Democracy. It sometimes is known as referent.

Reference; here reference means the related statement whether it can be a quotation, poetry or any other supportive idea to the given statement.


Hope so it is clear.

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