45 Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

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

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

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

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

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

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.

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