How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of 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?

— Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh Quotes

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

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

One boy’s a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

— Charles Lindbergh

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Charles Lindbergh

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

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

— Charles Lindbergh

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

— Charles Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

— Charles Lindbergh

I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don’t take any chances at all.

— Charles Lindbergh

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

— Charles Lindbergh

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

— Charles Lindbergh

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.

— Charles Lindbergh

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

The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.

— Charles August Lindbergh

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

— Charles August Lindbergh

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

— Charles August Lindbergh

The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.

— Charles August Lindbergh

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

— Charles Augustus Lindbergh
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