Who said “The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”?

“Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.”

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

“Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!”

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”

“Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.”

“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”