Italian Politician Quotes

Niccolò Machiavelli

Benito Mussolini

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Caligula

Silvio Berlusconi

Count Cavour

Lorenzo de' Medici

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

Leonardo Bianchi

The pillars of the nation state are the sword and the currency, and we changed that. The euro-decision changed the concept of the nation state.

Italy as you know is the closest neighbour of both Tunisia and Libya so we are extremely concerned about the repercussions on the migratory situation in the southern Mediterranean.

Franco Frattini

How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.

Lorenzo de' Medici

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Leonardo Sciascia

We are ready to proclaim throughout Italy this great principle: a free church in a free state.

Nicolae Ceaușescu had the fame of a heretic, but he was very different from Tito. He was the most Stalinist of the Balkan Communist tyrants, in tune with the past of his homeland, Oltenia, a land of dark forests and Ottoman atrocities.

Fascism is used by the bourgeoisie when the latter consider itself no longer able to fight off the peril of a socialist revolution. Fascism is, therefore, organic to the logic of capitalism and represents a more authoritarian handling that bosses temporary use, when necessary, in order to maintain their rule.

Churchill must not forget that the Italians have nothing more to lose and they possess a courage of despair.

Alessandro Pavolini

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics.... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Francesco Guicciardini

The stronger his fortresses, the more assiduous must the prince be in protecting them, for on no side does he incur greater risk than on that where he seems most secure.

Giovanni Francesco Lottini

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Silvio Berlusconi

In Milan, traffic lights are instructions. In Rome, they are suggestions. In Naples, they are Christmas decorations.

Antonio Martino

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

Benito Mussolini

The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division.

Berlusconi's politics as [...] Fede is information.

Antonio Di Pietro

Listen: if there is war down there— and if you think me worthy of it, and capable —you ought to grant me the honor of conducting the campaign. Surely, you don't think me too old?

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Pliny the Younger

The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.

Pietro Badoglio

Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

Gianfranco Fini