Who said “A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”?

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”

“He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.”

“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"”

“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”

“Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”

“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”

“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”

“We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.”

“Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.”

“Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.”