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Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him. — Kate O'Mara

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won't be the last. — Jeannette Rankin

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? — Henry David Thoreau

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier. — Jeannette Rankin

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. — Jeannette Rankin

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both. — Jeannette Rankin

What can I say. We like our women only mostly tamed. Where's the fun in a woman who'd never stab you just a little, if you pissed her off bad enough? — Kit Rocha

There can be no compromise with war. — Jeannette Rankin

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern ... what better gift? — Fred Rogers

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

I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool. — Jane S. Fancher

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

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work. — Raymond Carver

Killing more people won't help matters. — Jeannette Rankin

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go! — Jeannette Rankin

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. — Orson Scott Card

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well. — Lily Allen

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

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

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute. — Jeannette Rankin

Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late. — Sarah Strohmeyer

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. — Jeannette Rankin

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

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss ... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard? — Patrick Ness

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. — Jeannette Rankin

Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught. — Alexandre Dumas

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

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is. — Demetri Martin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake — Jeannette Rankin