Masons Quotes

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Son, Talking, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Differences, Genius, Stones

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2013). “Shakespeare: A Lecture”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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• From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Masonic, Hours

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• Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.

  Carl H. Claudy

  Heart, Brain, Mind

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• Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kindness, Gold, Wages

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• Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Powerful, Ties, Connections

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• The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Dedication, Knowing

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• 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 a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.

  Andrew Jackson

  Character, Order, Talent

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• 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 MacArthur

  Uplifting, Philosophy, Men

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• We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

  Albert Pike

  Brother, Ideas, Together

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• To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'

  Albert Pike

  Degrees, Doctrine, May

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• If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Ambition, Ignorance, Lines

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

  Andrew Jackson

  Principles, Moral, Masonic

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• It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.

  Unknown

  Masonic, Satan, Masonry

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  Walter Scott

  Law, History, Historical

  Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

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

  Albert Mackey

  God, Truth, Knowledge

  Albert Gallatin Mackey (1867). “The Mystic Tie: Or, Facts and Opinions, Illustrative of the Character and Tendency of Freemasonry”, p.7

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• There is no doubt in my mind that Masonry is the cornerstone of America.

  Dave Thomas

  America, Doubt, Mind

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• Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

  Harry S. Truman

  Past, Titles, World

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• Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  A. E. Waite

  World, May, Firsts

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• Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!

  Albert Pike

  Morning, Selfish, Son

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian

  Albert Mackey

  Christian, Masonic, Freemasonry

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• Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

  Matt Taibbi

  Apology, Player, Hands

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

  Robert Duvall

  Race, Two, Culture

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• The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

  Ned Beatty

  Lines, Born, South

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