Jeanette Rankin Votes Against the Declaration of War in 1917

“[Casting her vote against the U.S. declaration entering World War I, 1917:] I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.”

Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeanette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.