Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

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

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

Fascism is a religious concept.

The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.