Benito Mussolini on statism

Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

~ Benito Mussolini

Jacob Hornberger on the economic policies of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franklin Roosevelt

Three New Deals by Wolfgang Schivelbusch... compares the extreme similarities between the economic policies of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franklin Roosevelt.  It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Hitler actually wrote Roosevelt a letter commending him on his economic policies and pointing out that Germany was following much the same road.

~ Jacob Hornberger, "Leftists' Perverse View of Capitalism," The Future of Freedom Foundation, June 11, 2021

Benito Mussolini: complexity requires restrictions on freedom

We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.

~ Benito Mussolini, Grand Fascist Council Report, 1929

Benito Mussolini on the difference between classical liberalism and fascism

The fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the State . . . . It is opposed to classical liberalism . . . [which] denied the State in the name of the individual. If the XIXth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies individualism), we are free to believe that this is the ‘collective’ century, and therefore the century of the State.  If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.

~ Benito Mussolini, Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions 

(As quoted by Tom DiLorenzo in "An Open Letter to This Year's College Freshmen Class on the Subject of Fascism," August 28, 2017

Winston Churchill on Mussolini (1938)

It would be a dangerous folly for the British people to underrate the enduring position in world history which Mussolini will hold; or the amazing qualities of courage, comprehension, self-control and perseverance which he exemplifies.

~ Winston Churchill, 1938

Mussolini on the inevitability of planning

We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.

~ Benito Mussolini