John Adams said...

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

I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even ...

To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest...

But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon...