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BUSINESS AND JEFFERSON QUOTATIONS
> Great page! I am looking for a quote from Thomas Jefferson that I > could put on my page. I run a company that helps to get small > businesses on the internet, and it is called jeffersonet.com with the > slogan "Declare your Independence with Jeffersonet". (It's not up > yet...) Anyway I need a quote or quotes that I could put on the page to > describe why people should be on the internet, or about the virtues of > small businesses and how the internet would help them. Any help would > be greatly appreciated! That's an interesting question, which a person probably should approach in a little bit of a spirit of fun. The first thing that comes to mind is a slight editing of the Declaration itself: "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one... to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them." That represents a slight twist on the original (even though not a word was changed), but I think all would appreciate the good-natured humor of the intention. A couple of other quotes that might be appropriate: "Let us... enjoy free commerce with the whole world." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North, 1775. "I am for free commerce with all nations." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. "Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce and to knock off all its shackles." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782. All of this would be using the quotes somewhat out of context, but that would be entirely forgivable, in my opinion, by the good humor of it all. Good luck! Eyler Coates