John Adams said...

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

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

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

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