 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed. |
| 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. |
| Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting. |
| But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. |
| The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age. |
| Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. |
| 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. |
| Ignorance is a menace to peace. |
| 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. |
| Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. |
| Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. |
| 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. |
| In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. |
| 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. |
| The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. |
