“It appears to me….little short of a miracle that the delegates from so many different states…are also so different from each other in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices… should uniute in forming a system of national government so little liable to well-founded objections.”
Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 7 February 1788, in The Writings of George Washington, edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, 29:409.