"All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may call Senses … Reasoning or Intellect seems to raise no new Species of Ideas, but to discover or discern the Relations of those received."

"I reverence, as much as any one can do, the memory of those great men who effected the Revolution of 1688, and who rescued themselves and us from the thraldom of religious intolerance, and the tyranny…"

"The worshipers of God find, above all in the order of the universe, an invincible proof of this existence of an intelligent and wise being, who governs it. But this order is nothing but a series of mo…"

"There is a reason for me always shoe-gazing. I simply can't look into the eyes of several thousand people."

"I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social , all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. …"