Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

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

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

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

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

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

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.