John Adams actually said...

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

The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations.

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

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