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Emilio De Bono Quotes

1866–1944 Italy

Emilio De Bono (March 19, 1866 – January 11, 1944) was an Italian General, fascist activist, Marshal, and member of the Fascist Grand Council (Gran Consiglio del Fascismo). De Bono fought in the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Italy
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If you know anything, deny, deny, deny. I want to save Fascism.

We look on seriously, but serenely.

Listen: if there is war down there— and if you think me worthy of it, and capable —you ought to grant me the honor of conducting the campaign. Surely, you don't think me too old?

This was a great reward for us. We had not had the good fortune to meet the enemy in force.

Forgive me, that was the soldier speaking. Now this is the man speaking again. And the man is more than the soldier. I can bear anything. Death is a more solemn thing than all the earthly trash.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emilio De Bono (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.