Abigail Ray’s Reviews > The Journal of Major George Washington, 1754 > Status Update

"Washington's reaction was a farmers and soldiers outrage at the luxury engaged by the moneymen"

dances, concerts, and dinners displaying the greatest expense and elegance were so Washington complained absorbing attention to the exclusion of the problems of the nation..speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration and almost every order of men"

This is blowing my mind, and I repudiate every school teacher I've ever had for not having shared this story with me. Every great man in all of history had to suck, and I mean really badly, and it was almost as if God-throwing him chances and positioning him in the leadership of men kept saying "trust me, you're going to be good at this"