Quotes by Benito Mussolini

About Benito Mussolini:

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce ("the leader"), Mussolini was the founder of fascism.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Benito Mussolini

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.

Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Benito Mussolini

I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended. Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to...

Benito Mussolini

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.

Benito Mussolini

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

Benito Mussolini

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

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War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Benito Mussolini

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

Author Bio

  • NameBenito Mussolini
  • DescriptionPrime Minister of Italy and Duce of Fascism
  • AliasesMussolini; Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini; Benito Andrea Mussolini; Mussolinism; Benito Amilcare Mussolini; Il Duce; Duce
  • BornJuly 29, 1883
  • DiedApril 28, 1945
  • CountryKingdom Of Italy
  • ProfessionPolitician; Journalist; Teacher; Diplomat
  • AwardsOrder Of The White Eagle; Order Of The White Lion; Order Of The Golden Spur