Charles Lindbergh

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ”

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning. ”

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. ”

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

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. ”

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ”

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