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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.

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

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Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

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Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?

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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

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We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.

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I have nothing left but my integrity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: June 11th, 1880

Died: May 18th, 1973

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