Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle."
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Rifles
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Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle."
Jim Carrey
Actor, Comedian
"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. ;^"
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle."
Clint Smith
Poet, Educator
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
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"The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun."
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"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."
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"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
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"You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes."
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"The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it."
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"One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it."
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"I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association."
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"The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle."
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"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."
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"The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship."
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"More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle."
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"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."
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"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."
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