"It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death"
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"I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound."
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets."
"To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets."
"I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs."
"The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets."
"So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format."
"I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough."
"A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same."
"We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us."
"I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber."
"Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive."
"You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you."
"Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine."
"In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit."
"It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points."
"I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun."
"A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet."
"For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air."
"So you’re saying the afterlife is hard on the libido? FYI, that’s probably not a good bullet point for your recruiting brochure."