Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Walter Millis
Born: March 16, 1899
Died: March 17, 1968 (aged 69)
Bio: Walter Millis was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic's study of demilitarization in 1954.
Known for:
- The martial spirit (1931)
- Foreign policy and the free society (1958)
- The Forrestal Diaries (1951)