Jeannette Rankin quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Jeannette Rankin has a lot to say. In this list we present the 9 best Jeannette Rankin quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Jeannette Rankin quotes
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
— Jeannette Rankin
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
— Jeannette Rankin
We’d be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn’t have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They’re killed because one has a gun.
— Jeannette Rankin
You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.
— Jeannette Rankin
We’re half the people we should be half the Congress.
— Jeannette Rankin
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.
— Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
— Jeannette Rankin
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn’t make sense not to use both.
— Jeannette Rankin
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
— Jeannette Rankin
Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn’t make sense not to use both.
— Jeannette Rankin
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