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  • ...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

    "A failure in generalship". armedforcesjournal.com. May 1, 2007.
  • When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I loved them. Like, Rifle Man, I absolutely adored. So, I think everything comes in a cycle.

    Kids   Men   Thinking  
    "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.
  • The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

    Men   Gun   Evil  
  • You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.

    Wind   Rifles   Elements  
  • Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  • Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

    "The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott". Book by Orville James Victor, p. 106, 1861.
  • If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

    Dog   Clubs   Rifles  
    Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr
  • California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalistic sentiment, commercial rivalries, and simple greed. But can we ever separate out such motives from the religious? Was that not also true of the medieval crusades?

    Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.
  • It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

    Heart   Men   Rifles  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.147, A&C Black
  • Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

    Fire   Race   People  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

    Dog   Rifles   Sound  
  • There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

    Peace   War   Flower  
  • People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

    Men   People   Rifles  
    Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5”, p.9, Macmillan
  • You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

    Father   Army   Men  
    Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.

    Rifles   Needs   Clean  
  • All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations... Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.

    Journal of Palestine Studies, (p. 224), 1974.
  • The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

    Sarcastic   Sarcasm   Gun  
  • I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
    Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”
  • My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?

  • The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

    Gun   Men   Rifles  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: African game trails”
  • Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon - rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

    Children   Men   Rifles  
    "The Atlanta Declaration". lneilsmith.org. September 1987.
  • Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.

    War   Light   Hands  
  • One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

    Love   Strength   Hope  
    Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.331
  • I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman’s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It’s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

    Moving   Book   Kids  
    David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan
  • Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

    Support   Rifles   Ira  
  • Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

  • Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

  • There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

  • ...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

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