Paul Harris Quotes

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

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.

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

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

It was hardly a boom-town, but it was a faltering step in the right direction.

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

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

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

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

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

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

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

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

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

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

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

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.