Ammunition Quotes

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  A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

  Rudyard Kipling

  Book, Wine, Men

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• Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fire, Warning, Waste

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• Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

  Will Rogers

  Gun, America, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.113, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

  Phil Donahue

  Ideas, Praise, Lord

  Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

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• continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

  George S. Patton

  Running

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• The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

  Ida Tarbell

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Everybody supplies their own ammunition for their own execution

  Josh Becker

  Execution, Supplies

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• It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.

  Carl Douglas

  Judging, Bangs, Ends

  "Simpson tells judge he is innocent" by Anne McDermott, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.

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• Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

  Carl Rogers

  Rifles, Use, Wagons

  "On Becoming a Person". Book by Carl Rogers, p. 281, 1961.

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• Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

  Karl Marx

  Frustrated, Arms, Revolutionary

  Karl Marx (1973). “Political writings”

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.

  David Petraeus

  Real, Important, Never Forget

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• We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition.

  Barack Obama

  People, Weapons, Process

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

  Barney Ross

  Break Up, Locks, Might

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• Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.

  Rico Lebrun

  Believe, Moving, Personality

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• You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

  Jane Roberts

  Giving, Suggestions, Negative

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• I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

  William Shirley

  Law, Enemy, Arms

  William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Irving Kaufman

  Trust, History, Our Society

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• Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

  Nick Clooney

  Years, East, Our Actions

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• I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

  Chief Joseph

  War, Men, Buying

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• Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

  Carl Rogers

  Rifles, Wagons

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.

  Paul Virilio

  Perception, Information, Troops

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.

  Jeff Cooper

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Guns and Ammo Magazine, April 1991.

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• We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental - supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel...

  George W. Bush

  Troops, Armor, Fundamentals

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Victory 2004 Rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 4, 2004.

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• An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, History, Political

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