Charles Lindbergh Quotes

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

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.

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.

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

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

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

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

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

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

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.

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

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

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.

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

Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

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.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

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

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?

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

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.

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

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

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

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

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

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.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

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

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.

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?

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

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

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

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.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

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

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.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.