Community Quote by Suzanne La Follette

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit…

— G.K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Ideas about the withering away of the family found strong parallels in the political commitment to the withering away of law. The great majority…

— Wendy Z. Goldman

“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very…

— Thomas Paine

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

— Thomas Paine

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

— Indya Moore

“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors…

— Stephanie Coontz

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

— Marco Rubio

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

— Robert Bly

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

— George Bernard Shaw

If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws…

— J. Spencer Kinard