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 Quote

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.
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Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
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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.
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Ignorance is a menace to peace.
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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.
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In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
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Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
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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 Quote

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.
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Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
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Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
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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.
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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
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Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
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Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
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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.
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The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
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The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
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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.
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