Quotes by Walter H. Page

After trying in vain to get work to do on any newspaper in North Carolina, I advertised for a job in journalism - any sort of a job... I knew nothing about newspaper work. I had done nothing since I left the University but teach English in the Louisville, Kentucky, High School for boys one winter and lecture at the summer school at Chapel Hill one summer.

I never got a job in my life that I asked for! But all my life better jobs have been given me than I dared ask for.

I walked out in the night a while ago. The stars are bright, the night is silent, the country quiet-as quiet as peace itself. Millions of men are in camp and on warships. Will they all have to fight and many of them die-to untangle this network of treaties and alliances and to blow off huge debts with gunpowder so that the world may start again?

Our great lawyers, great judges, great editors, are all of the past.