““As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute and the Weimar Constitution, respectively) to subsist, and according to a paradigm that has been acutely defined as "dual state" - they placed beside the legal constitution a second structure, often not legally formalized, that could exist alongside the other because of the state of exception.””
![“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!” quote by Benito Mussolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ddb/benito-mussolini-3049_alternatives_the-struggle-between-the-two-worlds-fasc_1492406.jpg)
![“Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.” quote by Tibor R. Machan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5db/tibor-r-machan-50735_arbitrary_fascism-is-arbitrary-rule-by-a-charismat_1736168.jpg)
![“Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?” quote by Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c85/joseph-stalin-1734_fascism_have-not-fascism-in-italy-and-national-s_1935059.jpg)
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
