Benito Mussolini

Life is duty, struggle, conquest, and above all, sacrifice.

Only God can break the will of the Fascist regime.

The Fascist government is not a government of the people, but a government for the people.

The crowd is like a woman; it always prefers the strongest man.

The Fascist State does not remain indifferent to the religious fact in general nor to that particular positive religion which is Italian Catholicism.

History does not grant to a nation the right to live if it has no will to power.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.

The greatest danger for a politician is to be too popular.

The truth is that the masses are more obedient to the laws of the club than to the laws of reason.

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State.

We must have a strong State, a strong government, a strong army, and a strong will.

The State, as conceived and realized by Fascism, is a spiritual and ethical entity.

The Fascist regime has not only given Italy a government, but also a soul.

The Fascist State is not a night-watchman, but a living organism.

To believe, to obey, to fight.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.