Advancing Quote by Galeazzo Ciano

I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If…

— Ugo Cavallero

“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,…

— Hisham Matar

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so…

— John T. Flynn

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,

— Guido Calabresi

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

— Georges Simenon

When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had…

— Pietro Badoglio

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

— Silvio Berlusconi

We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.

— Marcus Garvey

“Mussolini and Horthy to different degrees feared Hitler and were suspicious of German military power, but by building their regimes on the basis of…

— Robert Gerwarth

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

— A. J. P. Taylor

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

— Silvio Berlusconi