Best quotes by Jeannette Rankin on War

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

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

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

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

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

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• ‟ It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

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

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

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

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