Charles Lindbergh Quotes

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• Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Life without risks is not worth living.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Worth Living

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Adventure, Flames

  Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

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• If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Lying, Safety, Chance

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government. I am saying that the LEADERS of the Jewish race wish to involve us in the war for reasons that are NOT AMERICAN.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, War, Lying

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• 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 .

  Charles Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Reality, Thinking, Strange

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• Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Perfect, Romance

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Army, Blood, Race

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Ocean, Flower, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for what we sell. The consequence is that we must work harder and more hours per day than we should, and in the end have less than what is due to us as our part of the advantages, conveniences and opportunities resulting from advancing civilization.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Civilization

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• I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Sky, Flying

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Glasses, Safety, Inexperience

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• Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Real, Lying

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Dream, Airplane, Reality

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Flying, Risk

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Dream, Yesterday

  "Lindbergh". Book by A. Scott Berg, p. 3, 1998.

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• Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Adventure, Space

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mathematical Equations, Panic, Firsts

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• The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Lying, Government

  Speech in Des Moines, Iowa, September 11, 1941.

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• The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Wind, Sky

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• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Rushing, Space

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Honesty, Easier, Ends

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Adventure, Men

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