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Excuses, answered by some of the most powerful and influential minds, in their own words! This is where the past meets the present.

Most Americans I have explained RA-50 to really like it, but why do you think some may not?"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." Alexander Hamilton
"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good." Thomas Jefferson
What would you say to those that feel that I have no business in suggesting a solution since I have limited experience in government or politics, and I am just a common citizen? "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein
"The government is us; we are the government you and I." Theodore Roosevelt
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." Thomas Jefferson
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr.
What would you say to Americans who complain about corporate greed, but yet make excuses for not finding a solution? "The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who are evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein
" He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Martin Luther King Jr.
"The constitution only gives people The right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." Benjamin Franklin
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." Alexander Hamilton
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." Theodore Roosevelt
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln
Is it a problem if each American business owner manufactures products in a foreign country for individual profit?  "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." Benjamin Franklin
"Dependence begets subservience in venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Thomas Jefferson
"A dispassionate and virtuous citizen of the United States would regard his own country as a wife, to whom he is bound to be exclusively faithful and affectionate and he will watch with a jealous attention every propensity of the heart to wander toward a foreign country, which he will regard as a mistress that may pervert his fidelity and mar his happiness." Alexander Hamilton
How important is it for Americans to employ Americans? It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." Benjamin Franklin
"I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go." Susan B. Anthony
"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize." Theodore Roosevelt
How do you respond to the excuse makers who would say that although you are people of great influence, times have changed? "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible." Abraham Lincoln
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson