John Adams actually said...

"My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republics of this hemisphere."

"It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been made by ourselves."

"I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution."

"But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interests of this Union, will engage the deliberations of the congr..."