Author Profile
Charles Lindbergh
1902 – 1974 • American • Aviator
47
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 47 quotesIt is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.— Charles Lindbergh
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?— Charles Lindbergh
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.— Charles Lindbergh
We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.— Charles Lindbergh
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.— Charles Lindbergh
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.— Charles Lindbergh
We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.— 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
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.— Charles Lindbergh
More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.— Charles Lindbergh
I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don't suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.— Charles Lindbergh
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.— Charles Lindbergh
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.— Charles Lindbergh
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.— Charles Lindbergh
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.— Charles Lindbergh