44 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.