Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

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

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

We must give Italians a sense of race.