I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
Washington describes his fundamental approach to life, emphasizing a belief in success and a rejection of pessimistic attitudes.
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Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.
Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.
I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.