I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
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… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
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… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
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… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
