Benito Mussolini

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

"The crowd doesn't need to know why you're doing something as long as you're doing it."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known as the century of Fascism."

"I have little use for blushing modesty."

"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State."

"War is the only hygiene of the world."

"I could not sleep and did not want to sleep."

"I am not, and do not want to be, a man of one book."

"Everything I have said and done in these years is relativism by intuition."

"The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable."

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything else."

"Democracy is a regime rentable to few."

"I demand that my life be taken seriously as a work of art."

"If it is true that the nineteenth century was the century of the individual, it may be expected that this will be the century of the State."

"The newspaper is in my blood."

"I love the smell of gunpowder and roses."

"Believe, obey, fight."

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power."

"A man is nothing without his willpower."

"I am not a man to look back or contemplate failure."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, lawbreaking, withholding of truth."

"Fascism, in fact, purges out of the system those wrecks of the shipwreck of mankind."

"We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, it is passion."

"I have at least tried to assert the male sex in its proper place."

"The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State."

"I was born in the night of time."

"Fascism is the most complete religion; the twentieth century will be the century of Fascism."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."