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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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.
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[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.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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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.
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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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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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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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