Zitat des Tages von 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.
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
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.
We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
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.
Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.
I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
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.
National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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.
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.
If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.
I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.