--- title: Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 to August 1923) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/ description: Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 to August 1923) by Benito Mussolini (1923), full text with provenance and rights. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: an interwar radio-and-newsreel intelligence collage with a 1930s map of Europe and propaganda poster proofs.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-interwar.jpg) [Library](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/) · Book # Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 to August 1923) ![Title page of Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches, selected, translated and edited by Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino, Dent and Dutton, 1923](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/thumb.jpg) Title page of the 1923 Dent and Dutton edition, from the University of Toronto copy digitised by the Internet Archive (a library stamp shows at the right). Public domain (published 1923); Internet Archive; University of Toronto, Robarts Library. Cropped from a scan of the page (top part) and reduced in size. [Source](https://archive.org/details/mussoliniasrevea00mussuoft) At a glance Sixty-nine speeches and extracts by Mussolini from his break with the Socialist Party in 1914 to August 1923, chosen and translated by a Fascist sympathiser and printed in London and New York within a year of the March on Rome. - **Author:** Benito Mussolini - **Published:** 1923 - **Origin:** Italy - **Length:** 104,309 words, 72 chapters Full details - **Edition:** Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914-August 1923), selected, translated and edited by Barone Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1923 ("Only authorised edition"). Text from Project Gutenberg ebook 62754, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive page images; the Internet Archive scan mussoliniasrevea00mussuoft (University of Toronto copy) was used to check it. - **Language:** English (translated from the Italian by Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino) - **Text source:** [Project Gutenberg, ebook #62754 (checked against Internet Archive item mussoliniasrevea00mussuoft)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62754) - **Text basis:** Human-proofread transcription by Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders. Gutenberg states that the book's errata were applied and typographical errors corrected without marking. - **Rights:** Published in 1923, more than 95 years ago, so in the public domain in the United States (works published in 1930 or earlier); Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA. The translator and editor, Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino, died in 1934 and Mussolini in 1945, so the term of life plus 70 years has also run out in Italy and the United Kingdom. The editor's introduction and prefatory notes are part of the 1923 book and are included. - **Rights checked:** October 2, 2026 On this page - [Read the text](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/#read) - [Provenance and rights](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/#provenance) **Content note:** Speeches and an editor's introduction that praise Fascism and its leader, describe violence against Socialists and Communists as necessary, use hostile wartime terms such as "Huns" for Germans, and make nationalist claims to territory. Shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) A selection of Mussolini's speeches in English, in six parts that follow his career: the Socialist (one speech, at Milan on 25 November 1914, to the meeting of the Milan section that voted his expulsion), the supporter of Italy's entry into the First World War, the post-war Fascist organiser, the Fascist deputy, and the Prime Minister he became after the March on Rome of October 1922. It was printed in London and New York in 1923. The archive hosts it because its regime page on Fascist Italy quotes from it, and because it shows the movement's own account of itself at the point of taking power, in the leader's words as one sympathetic translator chose them. Read it with its standpoint in view. The editor and translator, Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino, was a supporter of the movement, and his introduction (A Note on Italian Fascismo, dated October 1923) says so in its content: it presents Fascism as national self-defence against a "Communist peril", calls Lenin's teaching a "nefarious gospel", treats Fascist violence as unavoidable, and praises Mussolini in personal terms. The short note before each speech is the editor's, and he says in the introduction that most of those notes came from someone closely associated with Mussolini; they are set here as indented quotations so they can be told apart from the speeches. The selection is the editor's and is not a complete run of the speeches; some of its 69 items are sections of a single speech. It ends in August 1923, before the Matteotti crisis of 1924 and the one-party state that followed, which the book does not cover. Only the English is given; the Italian originals are not in this edition. ## Read the text - The Editor’s Introduction and the Manifesto - [Introduction: A Note on Italian Fascismo](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/01-introduction-a-note-on-italian-fascismo/) 3,319 words - [Manifesto of the Fascista National Party (English Translation)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/02-manifesto-of-the-fascista-national-party-english/) 225 words - Part I: Mussolini the “Socialist” - [“Do Not Think That by Taking Away My Membership Card You Will Take Away My Faith in the Cause”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/03-do-not-think-that-by-taking-away-my-membership-c/) 1,096 words - Part II: Mussolini the “Man of the War” - [For the Liberty of Humanity and the Future of Italy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/04-for-the-liberty-of-humanity-and-the-future-of-it/) 2,631 words - [“Either War or the End of Italy’s Name as a Great Power”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/05-either-war-or-the-end-of-italy-s-name-as-a-great/) 2,097 words - [“To the Complete Vanquishing of the Huns”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/06-to-the-complete-vanquishing-of-the-huns/) 1,260 words - [“No Turning Back!”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/07-no-turning-back/) 2,142 words - [The Fatal Victory](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/08-the-fatal-victory/) 3,838 words - [“In Honour of the American People”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/09-in-honour-of-the-american-people/) 719 words - [The League of Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/10-the-league-of-nations/) 1,695 words - [In Celebration of Victory](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/11-in-celebration-of-victory/) 917 words - Part III: Mussolini the “Fascista Friend of the People” - [Workmen’s Rights After the War](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/12-workmen-s-rights-after-the-war/) 1,191 words - [Sacrifice, Work, and Production](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/13-sacrifice-work-and-production/) 1,198 words - [“We Are Not Against Labour, but Against the Socialist Party, in as Far as It Remains Anti-Italian”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/14-we-are-not-against-labour-but-against-the-social/) 1,148 words - [Fascismo’s Interests for the Working Classes](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/15-fascismo-s-interests-for-the-working-classes/) 1,355 words - [“My Father Was a Blacksmith and I Have Worked with Him; He Bent Iron, but I Have the Harder Task of Bending Souls”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/16-my-father-was-a-blacksmith-and-i-have-worked-wit/) 905 words - [Labour to Take the First Place in New Italy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/17-labour-to-take-the-first-place-in-new-italy/) 546 words - Part IV: Mussolini the “Fascista” - [The Three Declarations at the First Fascista Meeting](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/18-the-three-declarations-at-the-first-fascista-mee/) 1,641 words - [Outline of the Aims and Programme of Fascismo](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/19-outline-of-the-aims-and-programme-of-fascismo/) 3,133 words - [Fascismo and the Rights of Victory](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/20-fascismo-and-the-rights-of-victory/) 1,632 words - [The Tasks of Fascismo](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/21-the-tasks-of-fascismo/) 4,254 words - [Fascismo and the Problems of Foreign Policy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/22-fascismo-and-the-problems-of-foreign-policy/) 3,980 words - [How Fascismo Was Created: Its Evolution and Essence](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/23-how-fascismo-was-created-its-evolution-and-essen/) 2,971 words - [The Italy We Want Within, and Her Foreign Relations](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/24-the-italy-we-want-within-and-her-foreign-relatio/) 4,539 words - [“The Piave and Vittorio Veneto Mark the Beginning of New Italy”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/25-the-piave-and-vittorio-veneto-mark-the-beginning/) 813 words - [The Fascista Dawning of New Italy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/26-the-fascista-dawning-of-new-italy/) 3,126 words - [“The Moment Has Arrived When the Arrow Must Leave the Bow or the Cord Will Break!”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/27-the-moment-has-arrived-when-the-arrow-must-leave/) 2,805 words - Part V: Mussolini the “Fascista Member of Parliament” - [Fascismo and the New Provinces](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/28-fascismo-and-the-new-provinces/) 1,529 words - [The Question of Montenegro’s Independence](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/29-the-question-of-montenegro-s-independence/) 880 words - [D’Annunzio and Fiume](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/30-d-annunzio-and-fiume/) 348 words - [Italy, Sionism, and the English Mandate in Palestine](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/31-italy-sionism-and-the-english-mandate-in-palesti/) 587 words - [The Attitude of Fascismo Towards Communism and Socialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/32-the-attitude-of-fascismo-towards-communism-and-s/) 1,236 words - [The Attitude of Fascismo Towards the Popular Party. The Vatican and Social Democracy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/33-the-attitude-of-fascismo-towards-the-popular-par/) 732 words - Part VI: Mussolini the “Fascista Prime Minister” - [Mussolini the “Fascista Prime Minister”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/34-mussolini-the-fascista-prime-minister/) 166 words - [A New Cromwell in the Parliament](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/35-a-new-cromwell-in-the-parliament/) 746 words - [The Foreign Policy of the Fascista Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/36-the-foreign-policy-of-the-fascista-government/) 1,405 words - [The Policy of Fascismo for Italy: Economy, Work and Discipline](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/37-the-policy-of-fascismo-for-italy-economy-work-an/) 993 words - [“Conscientious General Diagnosis of the Conditions of the Country and Its Foreign Policy”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/38-conscientious-general-diagnosis-of-the-condition/) 2,423 words - [“I Remain the Head of Fascismo, Although the Head of the Italian Government”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/39-i-remain-the-head-of-fascismo-although-the-head/) 295 words - [“Our Task in History Is to Make a United State of the Italian Nation”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/40-our-task-in-history-is-to-make-a-united-state-of/) 634 words - [The Advance in the Ruhr District](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/41-the-advance-in-the-ruhr-district/) 1,100 words - [The Government of Speed](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/42-the-government-of-speed/) 289 words - [The March of Events on the Ruhr the Position of Italy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/43-the-march-of-events-on-the-ruhr-the-position-of/) 1,237 words - [The Ruhr, the Conference of Lausanne and the Port of Memel](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/44-the-ruhr-the-conference-of-lausanne-and-the-port/) 644 words - [Ratification of the Washington Treaty of Naval Disarmament](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/45-ratification-of-the-washington-treaty-of-naval-d/) 345 words - [Message from the Hon. Mussolini to the Italians in America Upon the Occasion of the Signing of the Convention for the Laying of Cables Between Italy and the American Continent](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/46-message-from-the-hon-mussolini-to-the-italians-i/) 294 words - [For the Carrying Out of the Treaty of Rapallo](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/47-for-the-carrying-out-of-the-treaty-of-rapallo/) 1,022 words - [The Agreements of Santa Margherita, Italy and Yugoslavia](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/48-the-agreements-of-santa-margherita-italy-and-yug/) 2,093 words - [Questions of Foreign Policy Before the Senate. The Ruhr; Fiume; Zara and Dalmatia](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/49-questions-of-foreign-policy-before-the-senate-th/) 1,886 words - [A Review of European Politics in Their Relation with Italy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/50-a-review-of-european-politics-in-their-relation/) 2,096 words - [The Italo-Yugoslav Conference for the Commercial Treaty](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/51-the-italo-yugoslav-conference-for-the-commercial/) 187 words - [“History Tells Us That Strict Finance Has Brought Nations to Security”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/52-history-tells-us-that-strict-finance-has-brought/) 550 words - [“It Is Not the Economic System of Europe Alone That We Have to Restore to Its Full Efficiency”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/53-it-is-not-the-economic-system-of-europe-alone-th/) 591 words - [“Only Those Who Profited by the War Grumbled and Still Grumble, Cursed and Still Curse at the War”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/54-only-those-who-profited-by-the-war-grumbled-and/) 221 words - [“Patriotism Is Not Formed by Mere Words”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/55-patriotism-is-not-formed-by-mere-words/) 259 words - [Questions of Foreign Policy Before the Cabinet](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/56-questions-of-foreign-policy-before-the-cabinet/) 1,539 words - [“Mine Is Not a Government Which Deceives the People”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/57-mine-is-not-a-government-which-deceives-the-peop/) 510 words - [“In Time Past as in Time Present, Woman Had Always a Preponderant Influence in Shaping the Destinies of Humanity”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/58-in-time-past-as-in-time-present-woman-had-always/) 939 words - [“So Long as These Students and These Universities Exist, the Nation Cannot Perish and Become a Slave, Because Universities Smash Fetters Without Allowing the Forging of New Ones”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/59-so-long-as-these-students-and-these-universities/) 1,019 words - [Italy’s Foreign Policy Regarding German Reparations, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Russia, Poland and Other Countries](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/60-italy-s-foreign-policy-regarding-german-reparati/) 3,660 words - [“The Internal Policy”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/61-the-internal-policy/) 4,137 words - [“As Sardinia Has Been Great in War, So Likewise Will She Be Great in Peace”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/62-as-sardinia-has-been-great-in-war-so-likewise-wi/) 719 words - [“Men Pass Away, Maybe Governments Too, but Italy Lives and Will Never Die”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/63-men-pass-away-maybe-governments-too-but-italy-li/) 644 words - [“Fascismo Will Bring a Complete Regeneration to Your Land”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/64-fascismo-will-bring-a-complete-regeneration-to-y/) 311 words - [“As We Have Regained the Mastery of the Air, We Do Not Want the Sea to Imprison Us”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/65-as-we-have-regained-the-mastery-of-the-air-we-do/) 611 words - [“I Promise You—And God Is My Witness—That I Shall Continue Now and Always to Be a Humble Servant of Our Adored Italy”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/66-i-promise-you-and-god-is-my-witness-that-i-shall/) 251 words - [“The Victory of the Piave Was the Deciding Factor of the War”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/67-the-victory-of-the-piave-was-the-deciding-factor/) 1,172 words - [The Relations Between Italy and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/68-the-relations-between-italy-and-the-united-state/) 2,554 words - [“The Greatness of the Country Will Be Achieved by the New Generations”](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/69-the-greatness-of-the-country-will-be-achieved-by/) 421 words - [The Situation on the Ruhr and Other Questions of Foreign Policy](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/70-the-situation-on-the-ruhr-and-other-questions-of/) 498 words - [The Electoral Reform Bill](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/71-the-electoral-reform-bill/) 4,969 words - [The Massacre of the Italian Delegation for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Frontier](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/72-the-massacre-of-the-italian-delegation-for-the-d/) 391 words [Download as plain text](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/mussolini-political-speeches-1923/mussolini-political-speeches-1923.txt) 104,309 words, with the provenance header above the text ## Provenance and rights - **Edition:** Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914-August 1923), selected, translated and edited by Barone Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1923 ("Only authorised edition"). Text from Project Gutenberg ebook 62754, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive page images; the Internet Archive scan mussoliniasrevea00mussuoft (University of Toronto copy) was used to check it. - **Text source:** [Project Gutenberg, ebook #62754 (checked against Internet Archive item mussoliniasrevea00mussuoft)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62754) - **Text basis:** Human-proofread transcription by Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders. Gutenberg states that the book's errata were applied and typographical errors corrected without marking. - **Rights:** Published in 1923, more than 95 years ago, so in the public domain in the United States (works published in 1930 or earlier); Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA. The translator and editor, Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino, died in 1934 and Mussolini in 1945, so the term of life plus 70 years has also run out in Italy and the United Kingdom. The editor's introduction and prefatory notes are part of the 1923 book and are included. Checked October 2, 2026. - **Changes made:** Project Gutenberg's licence header and footer, the title page, dedication, errata list, contents list, index, and the book's illustrations and their captions are not included (the errata, which Gutenberg applied to the text, are not shown). Line wraps rejoined; the centred headings and part titles set in title case, and the two-line heading of the Bologna speech joined with a colon; italics kept as Gutenberg marks them (_like this_). The editor's prefatory note and place-and-date line before each speech, and the footnotes, are set as indented quotations; footnotes are numbered as in the book and follow the paragraph in which their number appears. The wording, spelling and punctuation are Gutenberg's transcription of the 1923 book, checked against a scan at eight places across the text. - **Source file checksum:** `89bb364367b02f27…` (SHA-256 of the download this text was made from)