Top 32 Best Paul Harris Quotes
#1. Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris
#2. 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
#3. 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.
Paul Harris
#4. The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.
Paul P. Harris
#5. 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
#6. But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
Paul Harris
#7. I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it.
Graeme Smith
#8. The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
Paul Harris
#9. The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
Paul Harris
#10. In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Paul Harris
#11. Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul Harris
#12. 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
#13. The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.
Paul P. Harris
#14. Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Paul Harris
#15. The world is a sort of big house where everything has been made by someone, or at least fetched from somewhere
Paul L. Harris
#17. Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
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#19. 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.
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#20. The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
Paul Harris
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. It was hardly a boom-town, but it was a faltering step in the right direction.
Paul Harris
#24. 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.
Paul Harris
#25. To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Paul Harris
#26. Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Paul Harris
#27. If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
Paul Harris
#28. 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.
Paul Harris
#29. 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.
Paul Harris
#30. I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
Ed Harris
#31. 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.
Paul Harris
#32. 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
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