John Jay actually said...

"A strong sense of the value of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government."

"The Union will be more happy, more respectable, and more durable, if all the parts of it consider themselves as mutual friends and fellow-citizens."

"Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first."

"To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection."