Presidential Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."

"bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."

"nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."

"it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free."

"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

"I cannot live without books."