Benito Mussolini

"A man who cannot change his mind is not thinking."

"The crowd doesn't like to think for itself."

"I prefer fifty thousand rifle-carrying soldiers to five million votes."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Every drop of my blood is Fascist."

"Believe, obey, fight."

"The individual is helpless in the face of the State."

"I could not sleep if I had power and did not use it for Italy."

"Fascism is not merely a political system but a spiritual creed."

"The true law of life is action."

"History will judge whether my methods were justified."

"I am the greatest teacher of tactics in existence."

"Politics is action."

"The masses have never thirsted after truth."

"A democratic system is the worst of all governments."

"Italy is eternal; other nations are transient."

"The duty of the individual to the State is supreme."

"I have always been a realist in my aspirations."

"The individual is helpless without the State."

"Cowards are as much in evidence in Fascism as in democracy."

"I have not waged war against the Church but against its abuses."

"The greatness of a state is measured by the will of its people."

"I represent a new type of state in the world."

"Time is a dimension of which the State makes use."

"The future of civilization belongs to those who understand power."

"I have given all to my people."

"The Fascist conception of life stresses its tragic aspects."

"Men are not born equal; inequality is a law of nature."

"I live for my work and my people."

"The State is the absolute embodiment of the will."