Author Profile
Paul P. Harris
1868 – 1947 • American • Lawyer
32
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 32 quotesThe nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.— Paul P. Harris
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.— Paul P. 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.— Paul P. Harris
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.— Paul P. 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.— Paul P. Harris
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.— Paul P. 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.— Paul P. Harris
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 P. 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 P. Harris
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 P. Harris
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.— Paul P. 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.— Paul P. Harris
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.— Paul P. Harris