Charles Lindbergh

“You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.”

“National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.”

“It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.”

“I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

“There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.”

“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

“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.”