"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other"

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

"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"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

"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"

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

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