Containing Quote by Jefferson Davis

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission…

— Caleb Cushing

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;…

— William Blackstone

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

— Jeremy Bentham

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

— Alan Dershowitz

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

“The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until…

— Marshawn Lynch

Idleness ruins the constitution

— Ovid

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

— Simone Weil

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage