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

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.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

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

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

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.