Benito Mussolini

"Society without authority is mob rule."

"We must strip man of his pretensions and show him his true nature."

"The function of a genius is to furnish ideas twenty years later."

"I have little use for intellectuals who ignore the practical realities of power."

"A man thinking of defeat is defeated already."

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

"The individual is nobody. Everything belongs to the state, and the state is everything."

"We become strong by what we overcome."

"Fascism is not merely a political system but a way of life."

"Words are a wonderful thing, but they do not change the nature of facts."

"The masses do not govern themselves through reason alone."

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

"Power is not a means, it is an end in itself."

"Peace is only possible between equals in strength."

"The past is dead; the future belongs to those with will."

"Great empires are built on sacrifice and discipline."

"Doubt is the greatest obstacle to human achievement."

"Men are not born equal; they become equal through struggle."

"History is made by those bold enough to seize the moment."

"The weak must serve the strong; this is the law of nature."

"Art must serve the state, not the reverse."

"Scientific progress means nothing without national purpose."

"Culture is the expression of a people's will to power."

"Faith in oneself is the beginning of all greatness."

"I prefer the blood of warriors to the ink of scholars."

"Dreams without action are merely fantasies."

"The crowd is always wrong in matters of judgment."

"A leader is nothing without the devotion of his followers."

"Time waits for no man, yet creates all empires."

"Freedom is earned through sacrifice, never given freely."