John Adams actually said...

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 ...

I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to th...