Friendship was the foundation rock on which Rotary was built and tolerance is the element which holds it together. There is enough atomic energy in every Rotary club to blow into a thousand bits were it not for the spirit of tolerance.

Entire agreement is too much to expect. Presumably no two of the hundred and fifty thousand Rotarians are in entire accord as to the way in which Rotary can make the most of itself. That men do not think alike is no more remarkable than that they do not look alike. Shades of thought are far more variant than shades of color and difficult to change. One's belief is dependent upon so many influences - temperament, heredity, environment, experience - and leaders must temper their judgment with patience and kindly forbearance. No dogmatic Rotary can be serviceable.

Paul Harris