Charles Lindbergh Quotes

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• [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
• Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much…
• These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of…
• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,…
• 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.…
• Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
• If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities…
• Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
• 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…
• 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…
• Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and…
• If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch…
• Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
• Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
• In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with…
• Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of…
• 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…
• 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…
• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…

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