Jeannette Rankin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I have nothing left but my integrity.

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

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