This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThis is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBetter to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAll within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe must give Italians a sense of race.
BENITO MUSSOLINILenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFor the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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