Quotes from Benito Mussolini

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

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

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

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.

War is the normal state of the people.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

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.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

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

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

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.

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

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

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.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.