American aviator, author, & inventor (1902-1974)
I appreciated the reception which had been prepared for me, and had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was a danger of killing people with my propeller, and I quickly came to a stop. That reception was the most dangerous part of the trip. Never in my life have I seen anything like that human sea. It isn't clear to me yet just what happened. Before I knew it I had been hoisted out of the cockpit, and one moment was on the shoulders of some men and the next moment on the ground.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
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interview with New York Times correspondent in Paris shortly after completing the first solo trans-Atlantic flight, May 22, 1927
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
Reader's Digest, July 1972
I hope you boys will excuse me, but I would rather the State Police answered all questions. I am sure you understand how I feel.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
comment to reporters after his son's kidnapping, The New York Times, March 2, 1932
What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
attributed, Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero
I saw a fleet of fishing boats.... I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
New York Times, May 23, 1927
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
Autobiography of Values