“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”

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.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

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.

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.

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.

People 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.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

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.

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.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

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!

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.