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• The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of race, or in any way antagonistic to him. I judge by the individual, not by his race, and have always done so. I would rather have one of my children marry into a good family of any race than into a bad family of any other race.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Men, Race

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• We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Passion, Prejudice

  "Isolationism, Redux" by Richard Cohen, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 3, 2012.

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• Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.

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  Mean, Eye, Light

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• I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

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  Infinity, Wonder, Knows

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

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  Individual, Circumstances, Values

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

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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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• I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

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  Successful, World, France

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

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• All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

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  Justice, Social, Existence

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

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  Men, Humanity, Matter

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

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• We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

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  Powerful, Air, Goes On

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• Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

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  Distance, Life Is Like, Landscape

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

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• From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

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  Federal Reserve

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Science, Weapons, Today

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• History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Design, Association, Dramatic

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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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  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

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• Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

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  Life, Animal, Men

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

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  Airplane, Adventure, Space

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

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• I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

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  New York, One Day, Months

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• It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Like You, Shots, Planes

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• These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.

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  Wall, Airplane, Voice

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Civilization, America

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• Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Rights, Arrogant

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

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