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

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

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.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

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