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 LindberghWithout death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
Charles LindberghWe cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
Charles LindberghAny coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?
Charles LindberghMan is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
Charles LindberghAfter reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.
Charles Lindbergh