Famous quotes containing the words private, property and/or rights:
“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)