I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

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.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.