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’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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. 

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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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