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Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.