Quote Analysis - Hitler & Mussolini

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"Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war" 

- Mussolini, 1932

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“It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realise that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.” 

- Adolf Hitler, 1924

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"To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live like a jackal for a hundred years" 

- Mussolini, n.d

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“The [Nazi] government will regard its first and supreme task to restore to the German people unity of mind and will. It will preserve and defend the foundations on which the strength of our nation rests… In place of our turbulent instincts, it will make national discipline govern our life.” 

(Message to the German People)

- Hitler, 1933

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"Democracy is talking itself to death.  The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is best for them.  There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion.  I have stopped the talk and the nonsense.  I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.  You in America will see that some day" 

- Mussolini, n.d

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“Brutality is respected. Brutality and physical strength. The plain man in the street respects nothing but brutal strength and ruthlessness. Women too, for that matter, women and children. The people need wholesome fear. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.” 

- Hitler, 1933