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1809–1891 United States

Albert Pike (29 December 1809 – 2 April 1891) was an American attorney, Confederate soldier, writer, and Freemason.

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Most men desire to leave some work behind them that may outlast their own day and brief generation.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Let no Fellow-Craft imagine that the work of the lowly and uninfluential is not worth the doing.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

To present a visible symbol to the eye of another, is not necessarily to inform him of the meaning which that symbol has to you.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

But in this association there is no abdication.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

The two great motors are Truth and Love.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The Moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

From the political point of view there is but a single principle,— the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

We all not only have better intimations, but are capable of better things than we know.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

It is, civilly, all aptitudes having equal opportunity; politically, all votes having equal weight; religiously, all consciences having equal rights.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

All eyes do not see alike. Even the visible creation is not, for all who look upon it, of one form and one color.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Pike (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.