Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

Men are what their mothers made them.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.