Posted on 06/27/2006 4:14:40 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
"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."
-- John Adams (quoted in a letter from Rufus King to Theophilus Parsons, 20 February 1788)
Reference: The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, King, vol. 1 (321)
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