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 MUSSOLINIIt is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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The 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.
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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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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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