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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Science, Technology

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

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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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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• Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Desire, Mixtures

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

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• The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Law, Want, Inflation

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Death, Progress, Would Be

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

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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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• When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Government, Political, President

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.281, Lulu.com

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• I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Civilization, Destroying, Expected

  "Of Flight and Life". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1948.

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• Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Time, Brain, Earth

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

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• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Love, Relationship, Intuition

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

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• We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Confused, War, Winter

  Journal entry on December 11, 1941. "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1970.

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• The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, Government, People

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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 can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Ocean, Men

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• Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Moral, Divine

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• To be a true Progressive it is not sufficient to stand up and say that one belives in what has been promulgated as progressive principles. One must be progressive in heart and active in promoting the progressive principles of today, tomorrow and always. There is no resting point, for humanity is ever ascending to a higher and better goal.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Heart, Goal, Humanity

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Life Changing, Sky

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me at the first opportunity, and one afternoon he climbed into the cockpit and we flew over the Redwood Falls together. From that day on I never heard a word against my flying and he never missed a chance to ride in the plane.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Father, Fall, Opportunity

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• But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, People, Pilots

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Roots, Mind, Needs

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, Years, Sky

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• I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Perfection, Progress, Aviation

  Foreword to "The Gentle Tasady: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest" by John Nance, 1975.

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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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• Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, White, Justice

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

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