I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOur 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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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.
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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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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If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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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 press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
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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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