For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Widely attributed to Mussolini; for example in Christopher Hibbert's Benito Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (1965) p. 40 and in Archer, J. (2017). Twentieth-Century Caesar: Benito Mussolini: The Dramatic Story of the Rise and Fall of a Dictator. United States: Sky Pony Press.