The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is the normal state of the people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIItalian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
BENITO MUSSOLINILenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
BENITO MUSSOLINIRace? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIPeople 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 MUSSOLINIBlood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty is a duty, not a right.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIEvery anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThree cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThis 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI