“Kill your doubt with the coldest of weapons: Confidence.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
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American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976Related quotes
Niccolo Machiavelli book Discourses on Livy
Book 1, Ch 44 (as translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella)
Discourses on Livy (1517)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Context: Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way.
Dianne Feinstein (1933) American politician
[Senators Introduce Assault Weapons Ban, November 8, 2017, w:Diane Feinstein, Diane, Feinstein, https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/11/senators-introduce-assault-weapons-ban]; [Guns and Groundhog Day, The New York Times, November 13, 2017, September 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/opinion/guns-congress-shootings.html]
On the introduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017
“Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.”
John Hart (1965) American author with multiple books and awards
Source: The King of Lies (2006), Ch. 8.