Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul Harris
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- 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.
- Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
- In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
- The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
- To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.