RIGHTS

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

With us no individual is born with a right to look down upon his neighbor and hold him in contempt.
- "Americans and English" speech

Man has not a single right which is the product of anything but might.
Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
- Mark Twain's Notebook