Albert Pike Quotes

If The Effort Also Is Predestined, It Is Not The Less Our Effort, Made Of Our Free Will.

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.

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.

If The Soul Sees, After Death , What Passes On This Earth , And Watches Over The Welfare Of Those It Loves, Then Must Its Greatest Happiness Consist In Seeing The Current Of Its Beneficent Influences Widening Out From Age To Age, As Rivulets Widen Into Rivers, And Aiding To Shape The Destinies Of Individuals, Families, States, The World; And Its Bitterest Punishment, In Seeing Its Evil Influences Causing Mischief And Misery , And Cursing And Afflicting Men, Long After The Frame It Dwelt In Has Become Dust, And When Both Name And Memory Are Forgotten.

But The Hour Cometh, And Now Is, When The True Worshippers Shall Worship The Father In Spirit And In Truth: For The Father Seeketh Such To Worship Him. God Is A Spirit: And They That Worship Him Must Worship Him In Spirit And In Truth.

Know Thou The Self (spirit) As Riding In A Chariot, The Body As The Chariot. Know Thou The Intellect As The Chariot-driver, And The Mind As The Reins. The Senses, They Say, Are The Horses; The Objects Of Sense, What They Range Over. The Self Combined With Senses And Mind Wise Men Call "the Enjoyer.

The Word Well Spoken, The Deed Fitly Done, Even By The Feeblest Or Humblest, Cannot Help But Have Their Effect. More Or Less, The Effect Is Inevitable And Eternal.

Justice Is Peculiarly Indispensable To Nations.

War Is A Series Of Catastrophes Which Result In Victory.

Work Only Can Keep Even Kings Respectable.

Phenomena Are Constantly Folded Back Upon Themselves.

We Do Not See And Estimate The Relative Importance Of Objects So Easily And Clearly From The Level Or The Waving Land As From The Elevation Of A Lone Peak, Towering Above The Plain; For Each Looks Through His Own Mist.