"Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe"

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist"

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage"

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"