Famous Masons' Quotations

"I strive to live with love and care

Upon the level, by the square."


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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin


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“The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.”

George W. Truett
Southern Baptist Leader


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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Will Rogers, American humorist


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“We represent a fraternity which believes in justice and truth and honorable action in your community…men who are endeavoring to be better citizens…[and] to make a great country greater. This is the only institution in the world where we can meet on the level all sorts of people who want to live rightly.”

Harry S. Truman


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"Freemasonry is an attempt to organize harmony, and therefore it is essential that all its arrangements for the promotion of concord should be of the most perfect character and most delicately adjusted. Whatever tends in the least degree to produce disagreement and discord, to cause a jarring and clashing among the elements composing the society, or any of its branches, must have a tendency to defeat the purposes of the Institution, must in itself be destructive of the spirit of Masonry, and must be something foreign to that spirit, something not to be cultivated, but to be avoided by Masons.

Masons are supposed by the profane to be religiously devoted to the maintenance among themselves of harmonic principles, and this supposition is based upon the professions which Masons and Masonic writers and advocates have ever made to the world. The supposition is well-grounded, and the profession does not exaggerate the intention of all true Masons."

The Masonic Monthly, February 1867


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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Franklin D. Roosevelt


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 "The Initiate was required to emancipate himself from his passions, and to free himself from the hindrances of the senses and of matter, in order that he might rise to the contemplation of the Deity. . . ".




"The effect of initiation was meant to be the same as that of philosophy, to purify the soul of its passions, to weaken the empire of the body over the divine portion of man. . . ".

 


"Matter. . . the principle of all the passions that trouble reason, mislead the intelligence. . . the Mysteries taught man how to enfeeble the action of matter on the soul, and to restore to the latter its natural dominion."



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