Albert Pike Quotes
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
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. 144.
The Anabaptists under January Matthys became Europe’s first communists sharing property equally and first and then making property communal. Other religious groups followed the communal property lead.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
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.