Sketches of Border Adventures, 1842
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“If only I had a thousand rifles of the same calibre!”
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1961) Mission for my Country, London, page 41
Prior to his seizure of power, Persia's stocks of firearms were unstandardized and unreliable
“The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.”
Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 537
Context: You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 39
“For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.”
Christopher Hibbert, as quoted in Benito Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (1965) p. 40
Undated
Quoted in "Teresa Heinz: A Woman On A Mission," Harry Stoffer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1993-11-07
Explanation on announcing she would not run for her late husband John Heinz's Senate seat.
“A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.”
Major Richard Sharpe, p. 55
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
Context: He was a Major now, the ranks long in his past, yet he still carried the rifle. He had always carried a long-arm into battle; a musket when he was a private, a rifle now he was an officer. He saw no reason not to carry a gun. A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
