Quotes by : Albert Pike

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies....

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

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

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

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

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter....

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us....

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