Quotes Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 - 28 April 1945) Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943 Sourced • Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war. • All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. • Blood alone moves the wheels of history. • Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. • 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. • For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes. • Fortunately the Italian people is not yet accustomed to eating several times per day. • From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. • 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. • Its good to trust others, but not to do so is much better. • Religion is a kind of mental disease. • Ruling the Italians is not difficult; its pointless. • Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. • The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. • The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. • The truth is that men are tired of liberty. • 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. • Three cheers for war in general. • To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. • War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it. • War is to man what maternity is to a woman. • We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty. • Women are like sardines, best kept in tins.
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