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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Albert Pike

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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
Teaching
Peculiarly
Wisdom
Calamity
Justice
Ruin
Nations
Indispensable
State
Unjust
History
Doomed
States
Ruins
Eternal

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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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