114 Quotes by Albert Pike

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .