The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. liv
“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”
Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Power and poverty: two extremes of existence going head to head http://www.independent.ie/opinion/power-and-poverty-two-extremes-of-existence-going-head-to-head-30567525.html (2014)
“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Book I, Ch. 39
Attributed
Variant: There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Mahatma Gandhi post-prayer speech at Birla Mandir, New Delhi, on April 6, 1947. quoted in Arvind Lavakare, Of Sabarmati secularism & non-violence, 16 April 2002, Rediff. Quoted from Hinduism and Judaism compilation https://web.archive.org/web/20060423090103/http://www.nhsf.org.uk/images/stories/HinduDharma/Interfaith/hinduzion.pdf
1940s
Source: Belgium since the Revolution of 1830, Page 226. https://be1830.be/onewebmedia/Belgi%C3%AB_sedert_de_omwenteling_in_1830%20I.pdf The French King Rejects 'Duke August van Leuchtenberg' as possible canidate for the Belgian throne.
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 490.
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1857), Of Empire
Source: Democracy: The God That Failed (2001), P.217
