Benito Mussolini

"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."

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."

"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."

"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."

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

"Inactivity is death."

"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."

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

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

"If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!"

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini.― Benito Mussolini"

"I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended. Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ... It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ... Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story."

"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."

"We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty"

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