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

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

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

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. 

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

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

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

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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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

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