Benito Mussolini
I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.Collection: Believe
Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.Collection: Winning
It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.Collection: Powerful
The working people are bound to their native shores.Collection: Shoes
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.Collection: Italian
Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.Collection: Italian
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.Collection: Gun
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?Collection: Evil
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.Collection: Government
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blunderedCollection: Fate
For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.Collection: Two
The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.Collection: Facts
As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.Collection: Attitude
Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.Collection: Simple
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.Collection: Party
Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.Collection: Education
Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.Collection: Real
Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.Collection: Italian
Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.Collection: Military
The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.Collection: Italian
War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.Collection: Military
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.Collection: Lonely
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.Collection: Religious
Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.Collection: Beautiful
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.Collection: War
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!Collection: Struggle
We must give Italians a sense of race.Collection: Race
In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.Collection: Night