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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak. -- George Orwell
The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known. -- John Sherman Cooper
It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle! -- John J. Pershing
Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. -- Dale Earnhardt
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel! -- Winfield Scott
You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. -- Paul Yingling
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. -- Sitting Bull
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
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
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
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
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
We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice. -- Johnny Depp
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. -- Jeff Cooper
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. -- George Orwell
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized. -- Jeff Cooper
A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles. -- Jackson Katz
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
I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact. -- Adrian McKinty
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up. -- Anson Mount
I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
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
Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that. -- Angelina Jolie
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. -- Fritz Kreisler
I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself. -- Joseph Mawle
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. -- Roger Waters
The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art. -- Mark Ruffalo
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers. -- Mark McKinnon
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
Only accurate rifles are interesting -- Townsend Whelen
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs. -- Shimon Peres
You should not have assault rifles in your home. -- Ann Patchett
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles. -- Barry Goldwater
You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me. -- Carrie Vaughn
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes -- Benito Mussolini
If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday. -- Steve Marmel
As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128 -- Donna Tartt
Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.The plant war, Percy said. You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? -- Rick Riordan
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
Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? -- Rick Riordan
AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting. -- Scott Simon
What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. -- Wilfred Owen
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
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
Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles. -- Tom Peters
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age. -- Herman Melville
I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives. -- Liam Hemsworth
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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