Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussoliniwas an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until he was ousted in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce, Mussolini was the founder of Italian fascism...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth29 July 1883
CityPredappio, Italy
CountryItaly
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins.
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.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Everyone thinks that fascists aren't worth anything, but we are here to commemorate them.
We are here to commemorate the fascists who died,
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.
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.
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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.
Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.