"If there ever was a militant religion, it……" — Paul Harris

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

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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.
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British…
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful…
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in…
It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant…
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as…
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States,…
If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it…
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

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More Early Quotes

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Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even… — Marcel Achard
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel… — David Attenborough
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under… — Margaret Atwood
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and… — Lester Bangs

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