Best Paul Harris Quotes & Sayings

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

The world is a sort of big house where everything has been made by someone, or at least fetched from somewhere — Paul L. Harris

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. — Paul Harris

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness. — Paul Harris

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

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

This is a frame. I think Mason Verger is trying to capture Dr. Lecter himself for purposes of personal revenge. I think he just missed him in Florence. I think Mr. Krendler may be in collusion with Verger and wants the FBI's effort against Dr. Lecter to work for Verger. I think Paul Krendler of the Department of Justice is making money out of this and I think he is willing to destroy me to do it. Mr. Krendler has behaved toward me before in an inappropriate manner and is acting now out of spite as well as financial self-interest. Only this week he called me a 'cornpone country pussy.' I would challenge Mr. Krendler before this body to take a lie detector test with me on these matters. I'm at your convenience. We could do it now. — Thomas 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

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

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

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

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

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

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. — Paul Harris

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

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

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

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. — Paul Harris

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

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

In telling these stories of our Nation's past, however, let's not be so zealous in correcting liberal historians that we create our own historical revisionism. If the Founding Fathers were alive today, some of them would not want to go to the typical Evangelical church. Some were influenced by the pagan Enlightenment, as well as the Protestant Reformation. one historical figure (not a Founding Father) who's been misrepresented in our quest to find Christian heroes is Johnny Appleseed. He's routinely pictured as a nice man who went around scattering apple seeds everywhere and toting a Bible under his arm. The fact is, Johnny Appleseed was a missionary for Swedenbogrism, a spiritist cult. This cult taught many false doctrines and claimed that the writings of the Apostle Paul had no place in the Bible. When a child hears that Johnny Appleseed is a 'godly hero' and then discovers that he was in fact a cult member, what will he logically conclude about everything he's been taught? — Gregg Harris

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

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. — Paul Harris

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

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

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

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

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