Charles Lindbergh Quotes

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.

I Hope You Either Take Up Parachute Jumping Or Stay Out Of Single Motored Airplanes At Night.

Here Was A Place Where Men And Life And Death Had Reached The Lowest Form Of Degradation. How Could Any Reward In National Progress Even Faintly Justify The Establishment And Operation Of Such A Place?

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.

On A Long Flight, After Periods Of Crisis And Many Hours Of Fatigue, Mind And Body May Become Disunited Until At Times They Seem Completely Different Elements, As Though The Body Were Only A Home With Which The Mind Has Been Associated But By No Means Bound. Consciousness Grows Independent Of The Ordinary Senses. You See Without Assistance From The Eyes, Over Distances Beyond The Visual Horizon. There Are Moments When Existence Appears Independent Even Of The Mind. The Importance Of Physical Desire And Immediate Surroundings Is Submerged In The Apprehension Of Universal Values.

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?

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.

Peace Is A Virgin Who Dare Not Show Her Face Without Strength, Her Father, For Protection.

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.

Science Intensifies Religious Truth By Cleansing It Of Ignorance And Superstition.

Air Power Is New To All Our Countries. It Brings Advantages To Some And Weakens Others; It Calls For Readjustment Everywhere.