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

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

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

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

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