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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1919

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Rebecca West, 1959

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.

—Mencius, c. 270 BC

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001
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