Lawyer

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

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

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

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

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

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.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

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

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.

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.