If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
“We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
