quotes about Rifles
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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 -
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
-- Anton Chekhov -
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.
-- Aron Bielski -
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
-- Barry Goldwater -
I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!
-- Carl Rogers -
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Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle knowledge exists primarily for use.
-- Carl Rogers -
There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.
-- Carl Sandburg -
At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.
-- Chris BurdenSource : Chris Burden, Anne Ayres, Paul Schimmel, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988). “Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey”
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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 -
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
-- Dale Earnhardt -
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 -
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 -
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
-- Edward Abbey -
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Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good choice of a plains rifle for Africa. I found that many of the 17 white hunters regularly employed by White Hunters Limited of Niarobi used a .375 for their medium rifle, and most all of them considered it ideal.
-- Elmer Keith -
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
-- Gail CollinsSource : "Advocates: Point and Counterpoint, Laurence Tribe and Robert Bork Debate the Framers' Spacious Terms". Miriam Bensimhorn, Life Magazine (Special Issue), Fall 1991.
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To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.
-- Henriette Mantel -
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I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
-- Howard Dean -
You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.
-- Isoroku Yamamoto -
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
-- James Spader -
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.
-- Jeff Cooper -
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Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
-- Jeff Cooper -
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.
-- Jeff Cooper -
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.
-- Jeff Cooper -
Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^
-- Jim Carrey -
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I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.
-- Joe Manchin -
The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!
-- John J. Pershing -
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 -
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
-- Joseph Stalin -
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The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
-- Karl Marx -
Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.
-- Kliment VoroshilovSource : "Epoch's End". Book by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, translated from French by Hirendranath Mookherjee (p. 149), 1945.
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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.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
-- Lily RabeSource : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.
-- Major Owens -
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.
-- Malcolm X -
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.
-- Martin McGuinness -
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
-- Mikhail Kalashnikov -
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
-- Nan Hayworth -
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
-- Neil KinnockSource : Speech in the House of Commons, October 23, 1986.
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I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.
-- Paul Giamatti -
I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
-- Phil Collins -
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Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.
-- Robert Baden-Powell -
Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue
-- Sheikh Abdullah -
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
-- Sitting BullSource : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”
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As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman -
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
-- Yasser Arafat -
Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.
-- Zach Braff -
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
-- Andy Barrie -
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If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
-- Clint Smith -
The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.
-- Clint Smith -
Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue
-- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam -
Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue
-- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam -
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Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.
-- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar