Famous Quotes from Famous People

In Echoes of 2007, Est. Analyst (Jan. 2008), Robert L. Moshman is quoting some of the recently deceased celebrities:

“We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” —Attributed to Leona Helmsley by her housekeeper. This quote was denied by Mrs. Helmsley, but it came to represent her attitude and the “greed is good ethic of the 1980s.***
 

“I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln’s. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.” —President Gerald R. Ford, died December 26, 2006.
 

“You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.” —Boris Yeltsin (1931 – 2007).***
 

“I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.” —Beverly Sills
 

“It’s not what you gather in life, but what you scatter in life that tells the kind of life you’ve lived and the kind of person you are.” —Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, died in 2007 at age of 87.***