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.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

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