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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBelieve, obey, fight.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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War is the normal state of the people.
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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.
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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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.
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For 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.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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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.
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