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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.