Accounts Quote by Thomas Malthus

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The…

— Albert J. Nock

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

— Corrine Brown

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

— Helene D. Gayle

The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce…

— Richard Posner

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

— Rudolf Virchow

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to…

— Samuel Adams

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

— George Bernard Shaw

When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social…

— Maggie Gallagher

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

— Mike Huckabee

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

— Gary Bauer

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

— Saint Francis de Sales