When Icame back to Dublin,Iwas courtmartialled inmy absence and sentenced to death in myabsence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Hostage, act1.

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believeönot empirically, alas, but only theoreticallyöthat for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

-Brodsky, Ioseph
  Nobel prize acceptance speech.

You don't need to be 'straight'to fight and die for your country.You just need to shoot straight.

-Goldwater, Barry M(orris)
  On homosexuals in the military. In Life, Dec.

I'll cable Hitler and ask him to shoot around you.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
  Remark to David Niven, Sep, when Niven left Hollywood to return to England. Quoted in David Niven Bring on the Empty Horses (1975).

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

-Inge,William Ralph
  The End of an  Age, ch.4.

For it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, and 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Tommy'.

'Do not shoot,' it shouted.'I am a B-b-british object!'

-Malouf, David
  Remembering Babylon, ch.1.

When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

-Sontag, Susan
  In the NewYork Review of Books,18 Apr.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Seasons,'Spring', l.1152^3.

She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  On his wife and fellow editor Katharine S White. Onward and Upward in the Garden.

'Shoot, if you must this old grey head, But spare your country's flag,'she said.

-Whittier,John Greenleaf
  'Barbara Frietchie', l.35^36.

Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Impressions of America: Leadville.