Jeannette Rankin

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

— Jeannette Rankin

Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will…

— Jeannette Rankin

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and…

— Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

— Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common…

— Jeannette Rankin

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

— Jeannette Rankin

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

— Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war.

— Jeannette Rankin

“We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because…

— Jeannette Rankin

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

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does…

— Jeannette Rankin

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

— Jeannette Rankin

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

— Jeannette Rankin

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

— Jeannette Rankin

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

— Jeannette Rankin

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

— Jeannette Rankin

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we…

— Jeannette Rankin

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

— Jeannette Rankin

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

— Jeannette Rankin

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to…

— Jeannette Rankin

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war,…

— Jeannette Rankin

Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept…

— Jeannette Rankin

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

— Jeannette Rankin

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any…

— Jeannette Rankin