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Paul Harris [0-0]

Intelligence, History, Mom, Power, Respect, Strength, Sympathy

Quote	Tags	Rank
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.	Power	101
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.		102
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.	History	103
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.		104
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.		105
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.	Intelligence	106
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.		107
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.		108
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.		109
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.		110
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.		111
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.		112
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.		113
Ignorance is a menace to peace.		114
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.	Intelligence	115
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.	Respect	116
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.		117
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.	Strength	118
Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.		119
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.	Mom, Sympathy	120
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.		121
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.		122
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.	Intelligence	123
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.		124
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.		125
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.		126
Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.		201
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.		202
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.		203
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.		204
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.		205
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.		206

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