Quotes from Paul P. Harris

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

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

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.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

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.

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

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.