John Adams actually said...

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 ...

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...