Charles Lindbergh

Transatlantic flight

Modern influential 134 sayings

Sayings by Charles Lindbergh

I believe in a strong, racially pure America.

1940 — Speech
Controversial Unverifiable

The Jewish question is a difficult one, but it must be faced honestly.

1938 — Diary entry
Controversial Unverifiable

We must not become a mongrel race.

1939 — Letter to a friend
Controversial Unverifiable

The survival of the white race is paramount.

1941 — Private notes
Controversial Unverifiable

I have no sympathy for those who seek to destroy the white race.

1940 — Diary entry
Controversial Unverifiable

The future belongs to the strong races, and the white race is strong.

1939 — Speech
Controversial Unverifiable

It is our duty to protect our racial heritage.

1941 — Letter to an editor
Controversial Unverifiable

The white race is the creator of civilization, and we must preserve it.

1938 — Private notes
Controversial Unverifiable

We must not allow our racial identity to be eroded.

1940 — Diary entry
Controversial Unverifiable

We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence... Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur.

1939 — Diary entry about his antisemitic views
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

We, the heirs of European culture, are on the verge of a disastrous war, a war within our own family of nations, a war which will reduce the strength and destroy the treasures of the White race.

1941 — Radio address for America First Committee
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I have been forced to the conclusion that we are losing character and quality, and that we are doing it so rapidly that the very foundations of our civilization are threatened.

1939 — Speech about eugenics and racial purity
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

1953 — From his book 'The Spirit of St. Louis'
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I feel I am on the border of a new world. I feel I am on the border of a new life.

1927 — Diary entry after his transatlantic flight
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The fundamental issue now is whether we go into war or stay out.

1941 — America First Committee speech
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

1948 — Reflections after World War II
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The only time I feel alive is when I'm flying.

1967 — Interview about his aviation career
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

We must turn to new fields of exploration, to the development of aviation, to the unfamiliar paths of space.

1954 — Speech about future exploration
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I own the world as the world owns me.

1927 — Personal diary reflection
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The Jew is a race that has no civilization to point to, no aspiring religion, no great achievements in any realm.

1938 — Diary entry
Controversial Unverifiable