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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
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. -- Howard Dean
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. -- Andy Barrie
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. -- Timothy Noah
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. -- Tony Todd
Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. -- Dale Earnhardt
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. -- Jeff Cooper
To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic. -- Harvey Weinstein
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. -- Jack Kirby
The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps. -- Eddie Izzard
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. -- Sitting Bull
In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors. -- Tina Fey
I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. -- George Clooney
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. -- Gail Collins
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. -- Dale Earnhardt
Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service. -- Woody Allen
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. -- Rudyard Kipling
You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready. -- David Letterman
If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties. -- Harvey Weinstein
[The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding. -- Robert Bork
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
The only real power comes out of a long rifle. -- Joseph Stalin
It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle! -- John J. Pershing
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, -- Ida B. Wells
You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. -- Paul Giamatti
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes. -- Edward Abbey
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man. -- Jeff Cooper
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. -- Brendan Behan
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
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
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
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
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. -- Steve Albini
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. -- Malcolm X
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar. -- Bobby Bare
Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one. -- Kliment Voroshilov
Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle! -- Carl Rogers
I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle. -- Jim Norton
Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle. -- Bob Dylan
Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house. -- Bret Harte
Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
What do you call a rifle with three barrels?A trifle. -- Joseph Rosenbloom
Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle. -- Zach Braff
Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue -- Sheikh Abdullah
In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised -- George S. Patton
Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle knowledge exists primarily for use. -- Carl Rogers
Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second. -- Aron Bielski
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. -- Nas
There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead. -- Matthew Ridgway
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. -- Jeff Cooper
I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle. -- Joe Manchin
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. -- Paul Yingling
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life. -- Jim Webb
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The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. -- Edward Abbey
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. -- Anton Chekhov
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules. -- Gagan Narang
The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. -- George Orwell
I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle. -- Henriette Mantel
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. -- Jeff Cooper
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist. -- Emiliano Zapata
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? -- Christine Pelosi
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun. -- Theodore Roosevelt
They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man. -- Bruce Springsteen
Gay People can't do this. Women shouldn't be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you're attacking my rights. -- Remi Kanazi
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? -- Al Sharpton
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made. -- Joanna Lumley
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot. -- James Spader
More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed. -- Thom Yorke
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. -- Meg Cabot
The scope of my problem will easily fit in the scope of my rifle. Too bad true love has to come with a mother-in-law. -- Jarod Kintz
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- Booker T. Washington
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
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights. -- John Steinbeck
You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on. -- Bill Hicks
Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray. -- Bob Garfield
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. -- Roy Blunt
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
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
You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting. -- Joe Teti
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 Kinnock
(So I heard the boom of my fathr's rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14) -- Sherman Alexie
In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something. -- Bill Maher
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. -- Carlos Santana
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
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. -- George Orwell
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
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity. -- Wade Davis
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 Rabe
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 Burden
We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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 handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead. -- Clint Smith
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. -- Chuck Todd
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
My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
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
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an â??equalizer. -- Edward Abbey
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!' -- Tom Seaver
Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot. -- Zach Braff
Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead -- William Butler Yeats
There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there. -- Mark Leibovich
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing. -- Shimon Peres
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range. -- Henry David Thoreau

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