Albert Pike Quotes
For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.
Pike, Albert. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, 1871, p. 73.
A conservative Calvinist weekly periodical. Just as today, there were few politicians who could stand up to such a test.
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One of the reasons that this quotation is particularly interesting is that Hawkins appeared to be a very reverent and moral man and yet he was the person who opened the Slave Trade in England. Queen Elizabeth evidently regarded the opening of the slave-trade as a worthy achievement, for after his second voyage she made Hawkins a knight, giving him for a crest the image of a Negro's head and bust with the arms securely bound. Queen Elizabeth I, for all her virtues as a monarch, was also totally insensitive to the sufferings of the Negro slaves. Two hundred years thereafter, other English politicians and leaders would take the world lead in abolishing the slave trade.
Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and prominent member of the Freemasons. Pike was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. He then served as an associate justice of the confederate Arkansas Supreme Court from 1864 until the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederation in May 1865.
