Albert Pike Quotes

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

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

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

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