Charles Lindbergh

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

— Charles Lindbergh

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

— Charles Lindbergh

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see…

— Charles Lindbergh

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

— Charles Lindbergh

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

— Charles Lindbergh

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

— Charles Lindbergh

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever…

— Charles Lindbergh

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would…

— Charles Lindbergh

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored…

— Charles Lindbergh

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for…

— Charles Lindbergh

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing…

— Charles Lindbergh

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct…

— Charles Lindbergh

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it…

— Charles Lindbergh

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that…

— Charles Lindbergh

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

These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass…

— Charles Lindbergh

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

It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part…

— Charles Lindbergh

We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve…

— Charles Lindbergh

Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should…

— Charles Lindbergh

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and…

— Charles Lindbergh

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious.…

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless…

— Charles Lindbergh

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and…

— Charles Lindbergh

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

— Charles Lindbergh

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world…

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— 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

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

— Charles Lindbergh

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

— Charles Lindbergh

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

— Charles Lindbergh

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his…

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure?…

— Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was…

— Charles Lindbergh