Charles Lindbergh Quotes
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Shall we now give up the independence we have won, and crusade abroad in a utopian attempt to force our ideas on the rest of the world; or shall we use air power, and the other advances of modern warfare, to guard and strengthen the independence of our nation?
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
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What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.
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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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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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We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.
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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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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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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
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In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
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I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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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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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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I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.
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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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Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.
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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.