Italian Fascism - Italian Fascist Slogans

Italian Fascist Slogans

  • Me ne frego (“I don’t give a damn!”): the Italian Fascist motto.
  • Libro e moschetto — fascista perfetto (“Book and Musket — Perfect Fascist”)
  • Viva la Morte (“Long live Death!”): sacrifice.
  • Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato (“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”).
  • Credere, Obbedire, Combattere (“Believe, Obey, Fight”)
  • Se avanzo, seguitemi. Se indietreggio, uccidetemi. Se muoio, vendicatemi (“If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me”) Borrowed from French Royalist Gen. Henri de la Rochejaquelein.
  • Viva Il Duce(“Long live the Leader”)
  • La guerra è per l'uomo come La maternità è donna (War is to Man as Motherhood is to Woman.)
  • Boia chi molla (“who abandons the struggle is a hangman/executioner”), leaving the fight is seen as killing your own comrades. "Boia" was commonly used as an insult in Italy for centuries.
  • Molti nemici. Molto onore (“Many enemies. Much Honor”)
  • E' l'aratro che traccia il solco, ma è la spada che lo difende ("The plough cuts the furrow, but the sword defends it")
  • Dux mea lux ("The Leader is my light"), Latin phrase.
  • Duce a noi ("Duce, to us")
  • Mussolini ha sempre ragione ("Mussolini is always right")
  • Vincere e vinceremo ("To win, and we shall win!")

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