Albert Pike

Albert Pike was an American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason.

Date of birth:
29th December, 1809
Date of death:
2nd April, 1891
"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."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): Work
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"Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): Faith
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"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): War
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"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."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): Men
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"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."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): Great
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"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): Politics
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
― Albert Pike
Topic(s): Death

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