(1474 quotes found)
“It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)”
Ronald Reagan
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”
Amy Heckerling
“When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.”
William Barclay
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad”
Proverb
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”
Charles Wadsworth
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
