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.

She bequeathed her property in Watkinsville Georgia to help "mature unemployed women workers. The campaign involved traveling long distances to reach the large state's scattered population. "If I am remembered for no other act" Rankin said "I want to be remembered as the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.

After being elected in 1916 Jeannette Rankin said "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last. "
A lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was one of fifty members of Congress who voted against entry into World War I in 1917 and the only member of Congress who voted against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.