The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.