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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.