Charles Lindbergh

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

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

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

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

When environment changes there must be a corresponding change in life.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

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

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

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

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation especially in its military aspects.

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.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.

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

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

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

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

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

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

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

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.