"Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity."

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Source : Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

Joseph Fort Newton

#Men Quotes #Order Quotes #Long Quotes

“Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.”
“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others”
“We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.”
“It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying.”
“The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
“[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.”
“The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.”
“What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing”

Source : Ishmael Reed (2013). “Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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