"There is nothing in the genius of America……" — 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."
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32 Quotes by Paul Harris
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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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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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Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
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