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There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

Benito Mussolini

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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.
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Absurd Concentrate Conclusion Hand Mean Monopoly Monstrous Only Ownership State
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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Absolute Freedom No Such Thing
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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Affair Life One Only State
State 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.
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Economic Initiative Insufficient Interest Intervention Lack Political Private Production State
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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Ask Head Program Smash Socialist
Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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Agree Country Despite Fascism Liberal People Person Position Prominent
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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Absolutely Definitely Doctrine Economic Fascism Liberalism Oppose Political Sphere
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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Bound Fate Intimately Nation Power Reproduction
If 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!
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Advance Avenue Better Day Follow Hundred Kill Live One Sheep
The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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Creator Ethical Fact Right State Universal
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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Enslave Immoral Liberal Moral Violence
Fascism is a religious concept.
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Concept Fascism Religious
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
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Allow Beyond Century Certain Descendant Doctrine History Look Preach Supreme
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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Compromise Know Moral More Profound Transaction Violence
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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Cheer Country General Three War
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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Citizen Function Inseparable Soldier

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