The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Fathers are biological necessities but social accidents.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that whatever the fate of the proposition may be our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

And I tell you having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers but they only have boys and they have the same attitude toward women they always had you know? And I don't play that... My girls you mess with them? I will bury you underground.

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50 Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers and he managed with amazing consistency to alienate most of them.

As regards parents I should like to see them as highly educated as possible and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

One of my grandfathers actually having gone out there as a minister decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.