To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.

-Collins,William
  'Dirge in Cymbeline'.

Let him who has a rifle use his rifle, let him who has a sword use his sword! And let those who have no sword take up pick-axes and sticks.

-Ho Chi Minh originally NguyenThatThanh
  Rallying call, Dec. Quoted in  J Facouture Ho Chi-Minh.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An'go to your Gawd like a soldier.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'TheYoung British Soldier'.

Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion† I fancy you would feel much the same if you were struck by lightning. I knew immediately that I was hit, but because of that seeming bang and flash, I thought it was a rifle nearby that had gone off accidentallyand shot me.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Of his wounding during the Spanish Civil War. Homage to Catalonia, ch.12.

'Good-morning; good-morning!'the General said When we met him last weekon our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 'He's a cheery old card,'grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'The General'.