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I grabbed a whole buncha quotes from this website. Note that I don't know who a lot of these people are. And yes, that is a quote from Adolf Hitler in there. I'm as surprised as you are to find out that not everything he said was completely insane. Do kindly let me know if I have any duplicates.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."
Paul Graham

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
Alice Koller

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Federico Fellini

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster, as a small child (This is why I do what I do!)

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
Publilius Syrus

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
Randy K. Milholland

Death is the enemy. I spent ten years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
Scott Westerfeld

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
George E. Woodberry

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Real Live Preacher

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!
Anna Quindlen

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman

I could prove God statistically.
George Gallup

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.
Matthias

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
The Work of the Chariot

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. The people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Ben Jonson

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
Archbishop Ireland

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
Chaim Weizmann

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Felix Frankfurter

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H. L. Mencken

Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
Chuck Sigars

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer

Music, like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Sir Thomas Beecham

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
Luisa Sigea

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
George S. Patton

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
Real Live Preacher

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
M. Cartmill

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
Betty Friedan

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
Bertrand Russell

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Alice Kahn

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Bible

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill