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
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More Quotes By Jeannette Rankin
  1. The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
  2. I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
  3. 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.
  4. You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.
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