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

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.