Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
— The Doctrine of Fascism
Benito Mussolini was a fascist dictator who served as prime minister of Italy from 1922 until he was deposed in 1943. Known as Il Duce, he established a totalitarian dictatorship led by the National Fascist Party in the Kingdom of Italy.
Born in Predappio, he first worked as a journalist for the newspaper of the Italian Socialist Party and was expelled from the party for advocating Italian entry into World War I. He served in the Royal Italian Army from 1915 until he was wounded in 1917. After the war he turned to nationalism and in 1919 founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, often considered the world's first fascist movement, which became the National Fascist Party in 1921.
Born in Predappio, he first worked as a journalist for the newspaper of the Italian Socialist Party and was expelled from the party for advocating Italian entry into World War I. He served in the Royal Italian Army from 1915 until he was wounded in 1917. After the war he turned to nationalism and in 1919 founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, often considered the world's first fascist movement, which became the National Fascist Party in 1921.
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty
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.
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini.
If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.