Rifles Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Hands

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• Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Understanding, Politics

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  Richard Page

  Lying, Moving, Hunting

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• Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.

  Matthew Ridgway

  Jobs, Military, Guy

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• The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.

  David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke

  Hunting, Foxes, Doe

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• I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Daughter, Powerful

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• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Needs

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• When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

  Dick Gregory

  Funny, Military, Responsibility

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• If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

  Steve Marmel

  Gun, Yesterday, Rights

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• We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of a long rifle dates from colonial days, when the only way to extend sight radius was to make the barrel as long as possible. It is interesting how long it takes a myth to die.

  Jeff Cooper

  Believe, Gun, Sight

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• I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

  James Spader

  Dog, Sound, Scared

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• The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Jobs, Military

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

  Paul Yingling

  Military, War, Suffering

  "A failure in generalship". armedforcesjournal.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

  Jon Meacham

  Father, Gun, Grew Up

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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Trying, Jerusalem, Praying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

  Joe Perry

  Art, Warrior, Pistols

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• If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

  Al Sharpton

  Grandma, Care, Ifs

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• The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Tanks, Bombers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mother, Men, Hands

  "Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)". Book by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929.

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• Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.

  Chris Pratt

  People, Goes On, Woods

  "Q&A: Chris Pratt Talks Hunting, Tanning, and Squirrels". "Outdoor Life" Interview, www.outdoorlife.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Father, Believe

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• We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

  Michael Morpurgo

  May, Bees, Sticks

  Michael Morpurgo (2004). “Private Peaceful”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

  John Ruskin

  War, Eye, Men

  John Ruskin (2014). “Praeterita”, p.380, Everyman's Library

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• A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

  Edward Abbey

  Business, Government, Self

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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