John Adams actually said...

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

The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.

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...