Jeannette 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.
Rankin, Jeannette. "Two Votes Against War." Liberation, Mar. 1958, p. 5.
Lincoln was depressed when the Union had over 30,000 casualties in a two-week time.
He served as a General in both the French and Russian Armies
In the phone conversation, the President agreed. Where the two ended up diverging was how much military action was required before a political settlement could be negotiated on favorable terms.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.
