“Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.”

— Charles Lindbergh

Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
Context: Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
If only there were some way to measure the changing character of men, some yardstick to reapportion influence among the nations, some way to demonstrate in peace the strength of arms in war. But with all of its dimensions, its clocks, and weights, and figures, science fails us when we ask a measure for the rights of men. They cannot be judged by numbers, by distance, weight, or time; or by counting heads without a thought of what may lie within. Those intangible qualities of character, such as courage, faith, and skill, evade all systems, slip through the bars of every cage. They can be recognized, but not measured.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment every…" by Charles Lindbergh?

Charles Lindbergh 39

American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social ac… 1902–1974

Related quotes

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist

Toast to the artists Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo: Madrid, Spain (25 June 1884)

“The highest truth is this: God is present in all beings. They are His multiple forms. There is no other God to seek.... It is a man-making religion that we want.... Give up these weakening mysticisms, and be strong.... For the next fifty years. … let all other gods disappear from our minds. This is the only God that is awake, our own race, everywhere His hands, everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears; He covers everything.... The first of all worships is the worship of those all around us. … He alone serves God who serves all other beings.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.

“There is at Paris likewife another sort of fodder which they call la lucern which is not inferior, but rather preferred before sainfoin. Every day produces some new things concerning it, not only in other countries but in our own.”

Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662) German-British polymath

Samuel Hartlib Legacy, (1650), p. 4. cited in: Walter Harte. Essays on Husbandry (1764), Essay II on lucerne. p. 10.

“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”

Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire

Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 106

“We are going to energise the country. We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do. We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Boris Johnson wins race to be Tory leader and PM https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49084605 BBC News (23 July 2019)
2010s, 2019

“Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.”

Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French novelist and philosopher

Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1787)

“Why do men go to war? Is it not in some way to better their condition. All these new fangled notions that men fight for other things than their own personal advantage is pure delusion. It is the solid things of life that men are ever after, though some of them haven't the courage to admit it. What is love of country but love of it's good things?”

Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer

Rival Caesars (1903)

“This art [riding] brings, besides other advantages, courage to the heart.”

Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) King of Portugal

Part I

“All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may call Senses … Reasoning or Intellect seems to raise no new Species of Ideas, but to discover or discern the Relations of those received.”

Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) (1694–1746) Irish philosopher

An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (1728), Treatise II: Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, Sect. I

“There is a serious trick and plan against our country. The imperial powers are seeking for a new exploitation.”

Binali Yıldırım (1955) Turkish politician; 27th Prime Minister of Turkey

'Strong president, parliament needed to achieve goals' (June 22, 2018) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/strong-president-parliament-needed-to-achieve-goals/1182516

“Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Charles Lindbergh 39

Related quotes

Related topics