Charles Lindbergh
Aviator
1902-02-04 – 1974-08-26
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator best known for making the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927. His flight from New York to Paris made him an international public figure. Lindbergh later worked on aviation and aeronautics initiatives in both civilian and military contexts.
Books by Charles Lindbergh
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The Boyhood Diary of Charles Lindbergh, 1913-1916
Early Adventures of the Famous Aviator
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Quotes by Charles Lindbergh
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
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We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.
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I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
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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.
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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.
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It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
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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.
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
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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.
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.
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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?
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As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
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Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
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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.
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The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
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