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Paul Harris Quotes


Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

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.

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.