The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

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

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.