195 Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

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

I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don't suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.

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.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

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

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

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.