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Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. -- Charles Taze Russell
The secret of masonry is to keep a secret. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry. -- William Howard Taft
The ultimate success of Masonry depends on the intelligence of her disciples. -- Albert Mackey
The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded. -- Albert Pike
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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
One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry. -- George Washington
Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration. -- Joseph Fort Newton
I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization. -- Dave Grohl
The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe. -- William Howard Taft
Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded. -- Max Heindel
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. -- William Howard Taft
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries -- Albert Pike
There is no doubt in my mind that Masonry is the cornerstone of America. -- Dave Thomas
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible. -- William Howard Taft
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it. -- Albert Pike
Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah. -- Albert Pike
More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth. -- Joseph Fort Newton
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land. -- Francisco Franco
That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity. -- Eliphas Levi
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means. -- John Marshall
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them. -- William Howard Taft
The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol. -- Benjamin Creme
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason. -- Charles Taze Russell
Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man. -- Joseph Fort Newton
The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them. -- William Howard Taft
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. -- Charles Francis Richter
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.' -- Will Self
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. -- Mervyn Peake
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal. -- Charles Francis Richter
All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us. -- John Cheever
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good. -- John Quincy Adams
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race. -- George Washington
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretation. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them...The true explanation is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry (those of the 32nd and 33rd degrees) -- Albert Pike
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. -- H. G. Wells
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. -- William Buckland
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. -- James Joyce
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. -- Eamon de Valera
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it -- Albert Pike

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