What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
BENITO MUSSOLINIPeople are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOn 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
BENITO MUSSOLINILife which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe 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!
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINIEvery anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThree cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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 MUSSOLINIWar is to man what maternity is to a woman
BENITO MUSSOLINI[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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