Benito Mussolini Quotes

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

Big government makes small citizens.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.