Rifles Quotes

• The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

  John J. Pershing

  Military, Marine, World

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• Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

  Bob Dylan

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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

  Country, Gun, Shots

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• The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gun, Men, Truth Is

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: African game trails”

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• 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

  Men, Gun, Evil

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• Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Enthusiasm, Bullets, Ability

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• The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

  Jeff Cooper

  Queens, Men, Use

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• That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Gun

  "A patriot after all, 1940-1941".

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• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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

  Carl Rogers

  Wagons, Ammunition

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

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• One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Strength, Hope

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.331

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• There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Answers, Terrorism

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• A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Gun, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

  Aron Bielski

  Gun, Waiting, Minutes

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• Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

  George Washington

  Gun, Fake, Second Amendment

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• A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Men, Duty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" by Hal Bernton, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. May 15, 2001.

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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

  Men, Wish, Lasts

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Luxury

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• 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

  Mistake, Mean, Gun

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

  William Powell

  Government, House, Wish

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93, 1971.

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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

  Strong, Simple, Gun

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• A strong body makes the mind strong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Exercise, Gun

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.287

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• A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

  Ida B. Wells

  Home, Should Have, Black

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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