History Quote by Hisham Matar

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted…

— Galeazzo Ciano

“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

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

— Joseph Goebbels

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

— Gianfranco Fini

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

“Mussolini and Hitler became “right-wingers,” and the people who supposedly brought them to power became “conservatives.” The Left, then, became the glorious resisters of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

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 have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I…

— Mark Leyner

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

— Silvio Berlusconi

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs…

— Rick Riordan

“This introduces one of the most significant differences between Mussolini and Hitler. For most of his career, Mussolini considered anti-Semitism a silly distraction and,…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Attempting to escape across the Swiss border on 26 April 1945, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, her brother Marcello and fifteen others were…

— Andrew Roberts