Paul Harris quotes

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement. (Paul Harris)
The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
Paul Harris
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Paul Harris
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
Paul Harris
Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.
Paul Harris
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Paul Harris
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
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Ignorance is a menace to peace.
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Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
Paul Harris
If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. (Paul Harris)
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Paul Harris
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
Paul Harris
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
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Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Paul Harris
It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.
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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul Harris
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
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When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. (Paul Harris)
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
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But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
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Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
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