The deliberate union of so great and various a peo…

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

By: John Adams

Year: 1788

This quote is from – Quoted in a letter from Rufus King to Theophilus Parsons