“We have it in our power to begin world over again.” -- Paine, Common Sense, 1776.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending sweat of its labourers, genius of its scientists, hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

"... our mode of teaching principles of our profession [Masonry] is derived from Druids ... and our chief emblems originally came from Egypt ..." [William Hutchinson, Mason, The Spirit of Masonry, revised by George Oliver, New York, Bell Publishing, originally published in 1775, p. 195]

“I see in near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and money power of country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon prejudices of people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and Republic is destroyed.” - President Abraham Lincoln, 1865