Charles Lindbergh Quotes

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

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.

Life without risks is not worth living.

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

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

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 .

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

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

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

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

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

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

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.

But 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.

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

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.

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

I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

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.

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

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

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

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.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

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

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

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

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

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