The fascist state is the corporate state. — Benito Mussolini

Family–see Fascist State. — Benito Mussolini

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. — Benito Mussolini

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts. — Benito Mussolini

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. — 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. — Benito Mussolini

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty! — Benito Mussolini

Liberty is a duty, not a right. — Benito Mussolini

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty… — Benito Mussolini

The truth is that men are tired of liberty. — Benito Mussolini

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline. — 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

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

We must give Italians a sense of race. — Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. — Benito Mussolini

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

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality. — Benito Mussolini

It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. — Benito Mussolini

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. — Benito Mussolini

The history of saints is mainly The history of insane people. — Benito Mussolini

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

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be. — Benito Mussolini

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

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. — Benito Mussolini

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history. — Benito Mussolini

I want to make my own life a masterpiece. — Benito Mussolini

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

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it. — Benito Mussolini

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace. — Benito Mussolini

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war. — Benito Mussolini

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

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. — Benito Mussolini

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity. — Benito Mussolini

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco–Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless. — Benito Mussolini

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine! — Benito Mussolini

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. — Benito Mussolini

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

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. — Benito Mussolini

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

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. — Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists. — Benito Mussolini

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. — Benito Mussolini

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral–more moral than compromises and transactions. — Benito Mussolini

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all. — Benito Mussolini

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. — 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

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. — Benito Mussolini