Words matter. These are the best Paul P. Harris Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
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.
One’s religion is one’s own possession and he has a right to it.
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
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.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
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.
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.
Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
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.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
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.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
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.
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
