Albert Pike Quotes & Sayings

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

“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.”

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

“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.”

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

“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.”

“We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.”

“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.”

“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.”