Benito Mussolini

The function of the citizen and the soldier are inseparable.

The greatest joy of man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all that they possess, to ride their horses, and to make sweet music with their wives and daughters.

Fascism is reaction. But reaction in the sense that it brings back to the Italian people the authentic traditions of Italy.

We demand the right to work, the right to vote, the right to strike, the right to assemble, the right to form associations.

The century of individualism is over. It is the century of collectivism.

We must create a new type of Italian, the Fascist Italian.

Our program is simple: we want to govern Italy.

Socialism is a beautiful thing; but Fascism is a reality.

By now I have become what I wanted to be.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it.

I am the most hated man in Italy, but I am also the most loved.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims.

The people are tired of demagogues.

The March on Rome was not a coup d'état. It was a revolution, prepared, organized, and executed by the Fascist Party.

The function of a citizen is to serve the State.

Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.

The Fascist State, as a synthesis and unit of all values, interprets, develops and potentiates the whole life of a people.

The crowd is like a woman. If you don't take it, someone else will.

The State, in fact, as a true reality of the individual, is the highest form of ethical existence.