I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
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Jeannette Rankin
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
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.
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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.
We're half the people we should be half the Congress.
You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.
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.