The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

your mouth shut.
In ‘Observer’ 15 January 1950
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
‘Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium’ (1941) ch. 13
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
In Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman ‘Albert Einstein, the Human Side’ (1979) p. 38
5.19 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world
in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children.
Speech in Washington, 16 April 1953, in ‘Public Papers of Presidents 1953’ (1960) p. 182
You have broader considerations that might follow what you might call the ‘falling domino’
principle. You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will
happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. So you have the beginning of a
disintegration that would have the most profound influences.
Speech at press conference, 7 April 1954, in ‘Public Papers of Presidents 1954’ (1960) p. 383
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out
of the way and let them have it.
Broadcast discussion, 31 August 1959, in ‘Public Papers of Presidents 1959’ (1960) p. 625
5.20 Edward Elgar 1857-1934
To my friends pictured within.
‘Enigma Variations’ (1899) dedication
5.21 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-80
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been
or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitute a man’s
critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.
‘Adam Bede’ (1859) ch. 29
A maggot must be born i’ the rotten cheese to like it.
‘Adam Bede’ (1859) ch. 32
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
‘Adam Bede’ (1859) ch. 33
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a
new state.
‘Adam Bede’ (1859) ch. 42
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
‘Adam Bede’ (1859) ch.42