Paul P. Harris

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

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.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

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.

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.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

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.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

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.

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.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

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.

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.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

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.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

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.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.