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

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

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

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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.