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
Benito Mussolini quotes about
Everyone thinks that fascists aren't worth anything, but we are here to commemorate them.
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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.
Fascism is a religious concept.
The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.
The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man