Jeannette Rankin

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.

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

We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

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

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?

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

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

It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.

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

Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

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

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

I have nothing left but my integrity.