Top 80 Charles Lindbergh Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

— Charles Lindbergh

53. “The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.”

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

55. “I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.”

— Charles Lindbergh

56. “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

57. “If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man’s potentialities appear to be unbounded.”

— Charles Lindbergh

58. “No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.”

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

60. “The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.”

— Charles Lindbergh

61. “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.”

— Charles Lindbergh

62. “As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.”

— Charles Lindbergh

63. “Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.”

— Charles Lindbergh

64. “I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.”

— Charles Lindbergh

65. “Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership.”

— Charles Lindbergh

66. “We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.”

— Charles Lindbergh

67. “It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.”

— Charles Lindbergh

68. “Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.”

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

70. “Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.”

— Charles Lindbergh

71. “Life’s values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.”

— Charles Lindbergh

72. “The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.”

— Charles Lindbergh

73. “We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.”

— Charles Lindbergh

74. “I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind – qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.”

— Charles Lindbergh

75. “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.”

— Charles Lindbergh

76. “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?”

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

78. “It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.”

— Charles Lindbergh

79. “Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.”

— Charles Lindbergh

80. “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.”

— Charles Lindbergh

81. “Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.”

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

83. “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

84. “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

85. “Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.”

— Charles Lindbergh

86. “At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.”

— Charles Lindbergh

87. “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