Creative Quotations from . . .
Benito Mussolini
(1883-1945) born on
Jul 29
Italian political leader. Il Duce was prime minister (1922-43) and the first of 20th-century Europe's fascist dictators; allied with Adolf Hitler, 1939.
         
   
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F
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.

R
Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
A
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.
N
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
K
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Addressed to the Socialists in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 21 June 1921, in Mussolini's first speech as a member of parliament.
R: On Hitler's seizing power. "Sawdust Caesar," (George Seldes), Ch. 24
A: Fascism, Doctrine and Institutions."
N: Benito Mussolini," (C. Hibbert), Pt. II, Ch. 1
K:
 

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