The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Source: Speech, 6 Oct 1922, Milan, Italy.
-- Benito Mussolini, (Jul 29 1883-1945), 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.