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

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

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

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.

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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.

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