Top 46 Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

About Charles Lindbergh

These are some quotes by American author Charles Lindbergh Aviator, who lived between February 4, 1902 and August 26, 1974.

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.

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.

Charles Lindbergh

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

Charles Lindbergh

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

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

Charles Lindbergh

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.

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.

Charles Lindbergh

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.

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.

Charles Lindbergh

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

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

Charles Lindbergh

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

Charles Lindbergh

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

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

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

Charles Lindbergh

You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.

Charles Lindbergh

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