Benito Mussolini Quotes

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.

War is the normal state of the people.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

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

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

I am not a collector of deserts!

Fascism is not an article for export.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Family - see Fascist State.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

We must give Italians a sense of race.

The working people are bound to their native shores.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.