Benito mussolini

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.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

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.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

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

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

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

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

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

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