John Adams actually said...

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

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

It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of the United States to ...

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