John Adams actually said...

"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 practice of sacrificing their own children because it was stipulat..."

"I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative."