#rifle

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

#carry #combat #country #field #fight

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. ↗

— George Clooney

#anyone #association #care #charlton #deserves

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#citizen #instantly #pick #rifle #subject

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

#after #apart #arm #barrels #behind

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

#borrow #down #english #just #languages

One must not trifle with love. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#must #trifle