Paul P. Harris

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

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

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

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

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

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

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.

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.

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

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

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

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.