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

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Paul Harris

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

Ignorance is a menace to peace.
Paul Harris

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.
Paul Harris

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Paul Harris

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

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul Harris