The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

has value.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 14
Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 24
Like all gossip—it’s merely one of those half-alive things that try to crowd out real life.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 31
God si Love. Is this the final message of India?
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 33
Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think creation’s.
‘Two Cheers for Democracy’ (1951) ‘Raison d’être of Criticism’
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have
the guts to betray my country.
‘Two Cheers for Democracy’ (1951) ‘What I Believe’
So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits
criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved
Republic deserves that.
‘Two Cheers for Democracy’ (1951) ‘What I Believe’; ‘Love, the beloved republic’ is borrowed from
Swinburne’s poem ‘Hertha’
6.62 Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying
hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that
stalks after it.
Sermon in New York on Armistice Day 1933, in ‘The Secret of Victorious Living’ (1934) p. 97
6.63 Charles Foster 1828-1904
Isn’t this a billion dollar country?
At the 51st Congress, responding to a Democratic gibe about a ‘million dollar Congress’; also attributed to
Thomas B. Reed, who reported the exchange in ‘The North American Review’ March 1892, vol. 154, p. 319
6.64 Sir George Foster 1847-1931
In these somewhat troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated
in Europe.
In the Canadian House of Commons, 16 January 1896, in ‘Official Report of the Debates of the House of
Commons of the Dominion of Canada’ (1896) vol. 41, col. 176. On 22 January 1896, ‘The Times’ referred to
this speech under the heading ‘Splendid Isolation’
6.65 John Foster 1770-1843
But the two classes [the educated and the uneducated] so beheld in contrast, might they not
seem to belong to two different nations?
‘Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance’ (1820) p. 277.