John Adams actually said...

The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly deducible from ...

ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.

Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.

If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound to abolish the practi...