Freemason quotes

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◆ Freemasonry is the survivor of the ancient mysteries - nay, we may go further and call it the guardian of the mysteries.

- J S M Ward100

◆ Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

- Andrew Jackson99

◆ Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy, and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

- La Fayette99

◆ Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truththat truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature, of God and the human soul.

- Dr AG Mackey99

◆ Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents, are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission in to the Order.

- Laurie99

◆ To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

- Aleister Crowley99

◆ 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.

- Albert Pike99

◆ A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

- Albert Pike99

◆ A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable.

- Albert Pike99

◆ 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 Pike99

◆ 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.

- Albert Pike99

◆ I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

- Aleister Crowley99

◆ The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian.

- Albert Mackey99

◆ Freemasonry has taught each man can, by himself work out his own conception of God and thereby achieve salvation.

- J S M Ward99