Benito Mussolini War Quotations

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

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

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.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

War is the normal state of the people.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

War is to man what maternity is to a woman