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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.