There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.