Worth repeating.

In a free society, an individual's loyalties are to God, family, and country -- in that order. In a totalitarian society, obedience to the state eclipses all other allegiances.

-- William Norman Grigg (1994)

The time has come to establish the principle that children belong to the Republic before they belong to their parents.

-- Georges Jacques Danton Speech to the French convention (1791)

The family is more sacred than the state, and men are begotten not for the earth and for time, but for Heaven and eternity.

-- Pope Pius XI (1930)

The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their children in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police.

-- George Orwell's 1984

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already.... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

-- Hitler (1933)

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

-- Aristotle

Hitler's way of defending the independence of the family is to make every family dependent upon him and his semi-socialist state, and to preserve the authority of parents by authoritatively telling all the parents what to do.... He appears to interfere with family life more than the Bolshevists do, and to do it in the name of the sacredness of the family.

-- G.K. Chesterton (1937)

The peril America and the free world face today is every bit as real, though far greater in scope, than what a peace-hungry world faced in 1938 [when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the now-infamous peace agreement with Hitler]. National sovereignty is threatened as never before. As UN power grows, the entire world stands on the brink of an era of totalitarian control. We must pull back before it is too late -- too late to save our country, our freedoms, our families, and all we hold dear.

-- William F. Jasper Global Tyranny ... Step by Step (1992)

We must remind ourselves ... that history as usually written ... is quite different from history as usually lived: the historian records the exceptional because it is interesting -- because it is exceptional.... Behind the red facade of war and politics, misfortune and poverty, adultery and divorce, murder and suicide, were millions of orderly homes, devoted marriages, men and women kindly and affectionate, troubled and happy with children. Even in recorded history we find so many instances of goodness, even of nobility, that we can forgive, though not forget, the sins.

-- Will and Ariel Durant The Lessons of History (1968)

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

-- Thomas Jefferson (1790)

No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. A youth boiling with hormones will wonder why he should not give full freedom to his sexual desires; and if he is unchecked by custom, morals, or laws, he may ruin his life before he matures sufficiently to understand that sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group.

-- Will and Ariel Durant The Lessons of History (1968)

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

-- Matthew 18:6