Quotes from Charles Lindbergh

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

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

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.

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.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

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.

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.

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

I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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