
People Who Said Positive Things about Mussolini
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First published: Sunday September 27th, 2020
First published: Sunday September 27th, 2020
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History is complicated. It is also stupid. When people are alive, we understand that they are complicated beings, full of contradictions. Sometimes they are virtuous and strong, other times evil and weak. The dead are not perceived that way. They must be either saints or demons.
History sees Mussolini as a demon. I think he deserves it. But as these quotes demonstrate, many people were more than willing to overlook his deficiencies. What future tyrants are the subject of current praise? What future saints are we denigrating today? History will tell.
And so, without further ado, here is a collection of people who said positive things about Mussolini.
Cole Porter
You're the top!You're the Great Houdini!
You're the top!
You are Mussolini!
Original lyrics of "You're The Top" (1934)
Mahatma Gandhi
Unfortunately, I am no superman like Mussolini.
Vladimir Lenin
What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.
Winston Churchill
What a man! I have lost my heart!... Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world... If I were Italian, I am sure I would have been with you entirely from the beginning of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passion of Leninism.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.
G. K. Chesterton
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
Thomas Edison
The greatest genius of the modern age.
Sigmund Freud
To Benito Mussolini, from an old man who greets in the ruler, the Hero of Culture.
George Bernard Shaw
Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.
Silvio Berlusconi
He never killed anyone, he sent people on holiday to confine them.
He really should not be demonized as much as he is in the American school system in my opinion. But whether you respect him or not, very interesting figure in history.
P.S. We actually had the least punctual trains in Europe during his time.
Except for Berlusconi, of course. That's just an idiot.
Remember that the Baltics, Belarus, and Ukraine were at first HAPPY when Hitler, a disgusting, sick animal, invaded them. That is how horrific Stalin was.
(Please don't take this an attack though, I definitely think that your arguments are very much valid :)
"I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered."
Btw, Very nice one, absolutely love history!!
Sono errori imperdonabili anche se gli scuso che forse lo ha fatto non per il bene proprio, ma per l'Italia.