War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

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

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.