Famous quotes containing the words property and/or rights:
“It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, “that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living”: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)