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

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

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

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

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.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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