The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

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

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

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

War is the normal state of the people.