Jeanette Rankin Quotes

"There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: War, Common sense, Compromise, Decency)

"War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: War, Enemies)

"We're half the people; we should be half the Congress."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: People, 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."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: Life, Decision, Crisis, Philosophy)

"Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: Men, Women, Right, Sense)

"As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: War, Woman)

"I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: War, Country, Vote, Want)

"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: Life, Time)

"Killing more people won't help matters."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: People, Help, Killing)

"Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy."
- Jeanette Rankin
(Related: Democracy, Race, Will)