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
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.
The working people are bound to their native shoes.
War is the normal state of the people.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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.
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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.