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

“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.”

“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.”

“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”

“The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.”

“Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

“What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”

“The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]”

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for.”