Best Quotes by Jeannette Rankin (Top 8)

  1. 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.
  2. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
  3. The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
  4. We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
  5. 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.
  6. Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
  7. You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
  8. As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.