We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito Mussolini
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Benito Mussolini
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Benito Mussolini
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini
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.
Benito Mussolini