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. 

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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

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.