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We play upon every cord of the lyre, from violence to religion, from art to politics. We are politicians and we are warriors. We are syndicalists and we also fight battles in the streets and the squares. That is Fascismo as it was conceived at Milan...

— Benito Mussolini Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)

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