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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAt every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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[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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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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.
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