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
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women? — 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
