FASCIST PARTY

Benito Mussolini declares entry into the war on Germany's side, June 10 of 1940.

Italian soldiers with flag postcard.

Medium bomber Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero of the 46th Bomber Wing of the Italian Air Force.

"Struggle is the source of all things, so all of life is full of contrasts: love and hate; white and black; day and night; good and evil; and until these contrasts come to balance, struggle as the ultimate fatality will always be the basis of human nature. In the end, it is good that it is so. Today there is a military, economic, and ideological struggle, but the day when there would be no more struggle would be a day of melancholy, of end, of destruction. However, this day will not come." – Benito Mussolini

The other is the mysticism of materialism, the so-called civilization of gold, behind which stands united the arrogant and Communist Russia of Stalin, the France of Blum, and the England of the Freemasons and the Jews. Fascist Civilization is the Civilization of the spirit: that is the great truth of the century. Our movement is as holy as the Crusades. The civilization of Latin and Catholic Rome, which created the Europe of yesterday and today, has been reincarnated in our symbols: the Cross and the Fasces." — Niccolò Giani

"Fascism is the return of the spirit in the West, it is the return of the values of Aryan and Mediterranean civilization, because it is the return of the true and Roman Catholic Europe. Ours is the mystique of Rome, which is the mystical spirit, behind which are aligned forces who believe and fight in the name of European tradition, in the name of Aryan and Mediterranean civilization: Catholicism and Fascism, National Socialism and Rexism, the Austria of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg, Salazar's Portugal and Franco's Spain.

Otto Skozerny: “Duce, the Führer has sent me to set you free!” Mussolini: “I knew that my friend would not forsake me.

Otto Skorzeny: “Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.”

“Mussolini is not an ordinary socialist. You will perhaps see him one day as a leader of a consecrated battalion, saluting the flags of Italy with his sword. He is an Italian of the fifteenth century, a condottiere. He is the only man with the strength to correct the weakness of the government.” — Georges Sorel

"Fascism promises neither glory nor titles nor gain only duty and struggle." – Benito Mussolini

"The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists." – Benito Mussolini

"We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them." – Benito Mussolini

“Fascism is not finished, it is in history and in the hearts of Italians. I have done what I could.” — Benito Mussolini, April 25, 1945, at Palazzo Marino

"It is necessary to act, to move, to fight and, if necessary, to die. Neutrals have never dominated events. They have always gone under." – Benito Mussolini

"But, in short, what does this liberalism consist of for which today all the enemies of fascism are more or less indirectly inflamed? Does liberalism mean universal suffrage and other related things? Does it mean, in the name of freedom, allowing a few to have the freedom to end everyone's freedom? Is this liberalism? Well, if this is liberalism, it is a theory and a practice of baseness and ruin. Freedom is not an end; it is a means. As a means, it must be controlled and dominated." — Benito Mussolini

“Fascism is not finished, it is in history and in the hearts of Italians. I have done what I could.” — Benito Mussolini, April 25, 1945, at Palazzo Marino

"Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man." — Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto

"When it is a painful necessity, when it is a surgical necessity, violence is moral, more moral than compromise and negotiation." – Benito Mussolini, Il diario della volontà, 1927.