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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Men are what their mothers made them.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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