"Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires." — Paul Harris
"Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires."
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Paul Harris
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32 Quotes by Paul Harris
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Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
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It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British…
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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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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful…
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But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
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Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
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There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in…
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It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant…
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If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as…
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While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States,…
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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it…
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More Empires Quotes
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I…
— Victoria Beckham
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
— William Blake
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a…
— William Jennings Bryan
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid…
— James Buchan
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire…
— Julie Burchill
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no…
— George W. Bush
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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