114 Quotes by Albert Pike

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

All religious expression is symbolism.

For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.