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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.”

“In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.”

“The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.”

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

“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”