Top 100 Charles Lindbergh Quotes
#1. Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
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#2. 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. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
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#3. At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.
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#6. Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
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#7. Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.
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#9. 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 myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?
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#10. Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
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#11. Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.
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#12. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,
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#13. The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.
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#14. If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.
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#16. 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.
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#17. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
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#18. Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.
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#19. Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.
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#20. 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.
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#22. The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
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#23. The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
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#24. I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
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#25. 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 with nature more than science ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.
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#26. 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.
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#27. We Americans are a primitive people ... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
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#28. Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
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#29. Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
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#30. The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.
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#31. 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.
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#32. About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.
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#36. This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.
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#37. All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.
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#38. I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.
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#41. We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.
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#42. 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 .
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#43. Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.
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#46. We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.
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#47. I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.
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#48. Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.
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#49. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values ... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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#50. It 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.
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#52. 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?
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#53. Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
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#54. A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
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#55. 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.
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#57. The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
where perfect judgment would have advised against going?
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#58. [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
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#59. If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
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#60. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
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#64. 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.
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#65. I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many
myself and humanity in flux.
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#67. It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
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#71. And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.
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#72. Individuals are custodians of the life stream
temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
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#74. No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
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#75. Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
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#76. One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.
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#77. National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.
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#78. 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. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.
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#80. Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.
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#81. Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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#82. I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.
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#83. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
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#84. 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.
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#85. When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.
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#86. We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.
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#87. The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
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#90. We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence ... Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.
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#91. I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.
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#92. 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?
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#93. As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
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#95. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
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#96. 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.
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#97. At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
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#98. I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
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#99. I saw a fleet of fishing boats ... I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.
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#100. Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
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