The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

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

Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.