“It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?”

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.

On 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.

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

There 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.

There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them.

Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.