For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

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

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.