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title: "8 Musket Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [“There's quite a difference between skirting the rules and putting musket balls through them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-enoch/there-s-quite-a-difference-between-skirting-the-rules-and-putting/)

[Suzanne Enoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-enoch/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/suzanne-enoch-4768_musket_there-s-quite-a-difference-between-skirt_468038.png)

> [Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-ackerman/without-a-musket-to-raise-a-barricade-to-storm-a-flag-to-wave-the/)

[Gary Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-ackerman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ded/gary-ackerman-19373_air_without-a-musket-to-raise-a-barricade-to_798681.png)

> [“The musket made the infantryman and the infantryman made the democrat.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-musket-made-the-infantryman-and-the-infantryman-made-the-democrat/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/anonymous-1_quote_the-musket-made-the-infantryman-and-the_872287.jpg)

> [“Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-matthiessen/around-about-now-young-john-owen-comes-out-of-the-shack-lugging-my/)

[Peter Matthiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-matthiessen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03b/peter-matthiessen-5795_business_around-about-now-young-john-owen-comes-o_1276450.jpg)

> [You'll take my life but I'll take yours too. You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iron-maiden/you-ll-take-my-life-but-i-ll-take-yours-too-you-ll-fire-your-musket/)

[Iron Maiden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iron-maiden/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/iron-maiden-24850_life_you-ll-take-my-life-but-i-ll-take-yours_1790666.jpg)

> [I knew I should have cleaned that musket!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chung-ling-soo/i-knew-i-should-have-cleaned-that-musket/)

[Chung Ling Soo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chung-ling-soo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbd/chung-ling-soo-228346_cleaned_i-knew-i-should-have-cleaned-that-musket_2370217.png)

> [“Knowledge is a musket. You can use it only as a club, but will you? When your life is on the line?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brent-weeks/knowledge-is-a-musket-you-can-use-it-only-as-a-club-but-will-you-when/)

[Brent Weeks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brent-weeks/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cd/brent-weeks-1256_knowledge_knowledge-is-a-musket-you-can-use-it-onl_3111521.png)

> [“We are damaging the world more with our mobiles than our forefathers did with their musket.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amit-kalantri/we-are-damaging-the-world-more-with-our-mobiles-than-our-forefathers/)

[Amit Kalantri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amit-kalantri/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/amit-kalantri-279_cell-phones_we-are-damaging-the-world-more-with-our_3194560.jpg)

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