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FAMILIES BUILT FROM WITHIN BY MEN AND WOMEN OF CHARACTER PRODUCE HOUSEHOLDS OF RESPECT, PURPOSE AND VISION

• Marriage and family life are “the true origin of society” or the first and most vital foundation on which civil society rests. - James Madison

• An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens....There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family…. - Thomas Jefferson

• Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.- Samuel Adams

• It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family. - Thomas Jefferson

• This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one, which will make them rich indeed. – Patrick Henry

• This day I attended the funeral of Wm. Gray’s wife, a black woman, with about 50 more white persons and two Episcopal clergymen. The white attendants were chiefly the neighbors of the deceased. The sight was a new one in Philadelphia, for hitherto (a few cases excepted) the Negroes alone attended each others funerals. By this event it is to be hoped the partition wall, which divided the Blacks from the Whites, will be still further broken down and a way prepared for their union as brethren and members of one great family. - Benjamin Rush 1793

• The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my Family. ... public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. - Thomas Jefferson