Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”

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

“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 mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.”

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

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

“We're half the people we should be half the Congress.”

“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.”

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

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

“The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.”

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

“We're half the people we should be half the Congress.”

“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.”