Charles Lindbergh famous quotes

We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Marine #Men #Water

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Reality #Thinking #Strange

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Love #Relationship #Intuition

Life without risks is not worth living.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Entrepreneur #Risk

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Country #Passion #Prejudice

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Science #Weapons #Today

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Beautiful #Eye #Men

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Art #Wine #Years

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Space #Flying #Yardsticks

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Strong #Lying #Men

I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Believe #Sky #Flying

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#New York #One Day #Months

Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Mean #People #Pilots

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Hands #Left Hand #Have Courage

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Beauty #Adventure #Beauty Of Life

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Success #Struggle #Men

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Airplane #Adventure #Space

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Life #Dream #Yesterday

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Life #Time #Past

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Distance #Life Is Like #Landscape

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Airplane #Science #Technology

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Nature #Accomplishment #Miracle

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Lying #Real #Airplane

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.
-- Charles Lindbergh

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Simple #Men #Earth Day

The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Horse #Distance #Men

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Like You #Shots #Planes

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Panic #Firsts #Conspiracy

My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Stars #Life Changing #Sky

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Crazy #Fishing #Touching

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Life #Men #Thinking

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Mean #Eye #Light

Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Believe #Adventure #Men

Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Thinking #Air #Years

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Adventure #Perfect #Romance

The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government. I am saying that the LEADERS of the Jewish race wish to involve us in the war for reasons that are NOT AMERICAN.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Country #Lying #War

We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Country #Believe #Population

We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Army #Blood #Race

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Successful #World #France

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Real #Lying #Civilization

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Eye #Spotlight #Firsts

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Boys #Two #Three

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Powerful #Air #Serious

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Government #Political #President

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Adventure #Sky #Skills

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Individual #Circumstances #Values

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Time #Brain #Earth

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Power #Volcanoes #Egypt

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Space #Strange #Moments

Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Country #War #Lying

While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Stars #Eye #Moon

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Father #Faces #Protection

I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Infinity #Wonder

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Perfection #Progress #Aviation

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Law #Want #Inflation

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Brother #Believe #Character

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Independent #Ordinary #Consciousness

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Self Improvement #Important #Arms

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Civilization #Survival #Existence