Quotes about Fathers

These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.