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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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