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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.

Benito Mussolini

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Being Define Democrats Every Illusion May People Regime Sovereign
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 MUSSOLINI

Adopt Call Element Elimination First Measure Order Public Restore So Subversive
I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Contribute Country Master Most Ow People Person Revolutionary Rough Syndicalism Tactic Theory
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Accept Conquer Despite Fascist Know Life Love Nothing Rather Struggle Suicide
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Affair Life One Only State
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Accept Condemn Give Great Honour Pleasure
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Austere Chaste Country Liberty Longer People Person Surfeit Tired Virgin
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Action Beautiful Country Day Democracy Foolishness Lost Man Motion Nonsense Some Stop
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Applaud End Introduction Object Scarcely Serve Useful
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Affirm Beginning Capitalism Only Oppression Selection Story System True
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Cause Country Free Journalism Mine One Purpose Serve
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
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Bell Call Conference Country Fill Hitler Liking People Person Ring Servant
Life 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 MUSSOLINI

After Come Contemporaries Distant Life Live Oneself Other
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Accept Coincide Fascism Individual Insofar Interest State
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Between Continuous Demand Great Individual Silent State Struggle
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Absolute Freedom No Such Thing

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