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1883–1945 Italy
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and "Duce" of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his execution in 1945 by Italian partisans.
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Tell America that I like her, like her because she is strong, simple, and direct. I wish Italy to be the same and shall try to make her so.
I never felt that there was any conflict between my military duties and my Socialism. Why should not a good soldier be also a fighter in the class war?
Giovanni De Martino is the most important exponent of Italian art, the pride of Italy.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
War is the normal state of the people.
I have no love for the Jews, but they have great influence everywhere. It is better to leave them alone. Hitler's antisemitism has already brought him more enemies than is necessary.
I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006)
The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
The question is often asked in America and in Europe just how much ‘Fascism’ the American President’s program contains.
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.
Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
Mussolini: A Biography by Denis Mack Smith (1983)
It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket.
Religion is a psychic disease of the brain.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
Comrade Tassinari was right in stating that for a revolution to be great, for it to make a deep impression on the life of the people and on history, it must be a social revolution.
The integral reclamation of our national territory is an enterprise the achievement of which would alone suffice to make the revolution of the Blackshirts glorious down the centuries.
This is what we propose now to the Treasury: either the property owners expropriate themselves, or we summon the masses of war veterans to march against these obstacles and overthrow them.
Mussolini as leader of the Revolutionary Fascist Party (1919)
The dangerous persons for the socialist movement are not the intellectuals, but those who are not convinced of socialism. And all those who call themselves socialists without knowing why they are socialists.
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies.
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