Codreanu on the Life and Death of Nations

"A people is not led according to its will; the democratic formula; nor according to the will of one individual: the dictatorial formula. But according to laws. I do not talk here of man-made laws. There are norms, natural laws of life; and there are norms, natural laws of death. Laws of life and laws of death. A nation is headed for life or death according to its respect for one or the other of these laws." 

- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 'For My Legionaries' 

Image: Iron Guard funeral procession for Codreanu

A Remark from Ioannis Metaxas on the Blood of Heroes

"Heroes never die; instead they fall, and the soil, by drinking their blood, allows them to be reborn..." 

- Ioannis Metaxas 

Image: Greeks salute Metaxas, the leader of the Fourth of August regime in Greece (1936-41)

"Paracelsus in Excelsis," by Ezra Pound

Being no longer human, why should I

Pretend humanity or don the frail attire?

Men have I known and men, but never one

Was grown so free an essence, or become

So simply element as what I am. 

The mist goes from the mirror and I see.

Behold! the world of forms is swept beneath-

Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,

And we that are grown formless, rise above-

Fluids intangible that have been men,

We seem as statues round whose high-risen base

Some overflowing river is run mad,

In us alone the element of calm.

- Ezra Pound, "Paracelsus in Excelsis"

Ramiro Ladesma Ramos on the Nation and the Land

"The land belongs to the nation." 

- Ramiro Ladesma Ramos, ideologist of Spanish fascism, progenitor of National-Syndicalism, writer, essayist, hero of the Spanish Civil War (killed in 1936 by the Soviet-backed Popular Front).

A Remark from Léon Degrelle in 'Militia'

"A great ideal always gives the strength to dominate one's body, to suffer fatigue, hunger and cold. What matters, the sleepless nights, oppressive work, cares or poverty! The essential thing is to have at the bottom of your heart a great force that revives and pushes forward, which strengthens the nerves, which makes the tired blood throb with strong beats, which infuses a burning and conquering fire into the eyes. Then nothing gives pain, pain itself becomes joy because it is more of a means to elevate his gift, to purify his sacrifice." 

- Léon Degrelle, 'Militia'

Faustian Man and Fascism as Caesarism and Science

"Caesarism and science together could evolve Faustian man; a civilisation which could renew its youth in a persisting dynamism..." 

- Sir Oswald Mosley, 'My Life'

Mussolini on Fascism as Against Rule by Numbers

"Fascism denies that numbers, by the mere fact of being numbers, can direct human society; it denies that these numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations; it affirms also the fertilizing, beneficient and unassailable inequality of men, who cannot be leveled through an extrinsic and mechanical process such as universal suffrage."

- Benito Mussolini, second part of "The Doctrine of Fascism"

Churchill's Sycophantic Deference to Stalin

Churchill, to Stalin, in 1942: "Have you forgiven me?" [For the 1919 Allied intervention against the Communists]

Stalin: "It is not for me to forgive. It is for God to forgive."

- Quote from Buchanan's 'Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War' 

Benito Mussolini on Liberty as Duty

"Liberty is a duty, not a right."

- Benito Mussolini

A Quote from Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

"I am a fascist because I have measured the progress of decadence in Europe. I have seen in fascism the sole means of limiting and reducing that decadence."

- Drieu La Rochelle, La Nouvelle Revue française, no. 347, January 1943: 105; quoted in the following online reprint: "Two Intellectual Responses to the Dilemma of Political Engagement in Interwar France," by Christopher T. Ryan.

A Quote from Mussolini on Life as Will and Duty

"It is thus that the fascist loves and accepts life, ignores and disdains suicide; understands life as a duty, a lifting up, a conquest; something to be filled in and sustained on a high plane; a thing that has to be lived through for its own sake, but above all for the sake of others near and far, present and future." 

- Benito Mussolini, second part of 'The Doctrine of Fascism'

Sir Oswald Mosley on Fascism as Will to Life

"Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly."

- Excerpt from Sir Mosley's My Life

The Tyrant Must Steal Sleep

"The tyrant must steal sleep. He must vary the locations and times. He never sleeps in his palaces. He moves from secret bed to secret bed. Sleep and a fixed routine are among the few luxuries denied him. It is too dangerous to be predictable, and whenever he shuts his eyes, the nation drifts."

- Mark Bowden, "Tales of the Tyrant"

Eastside High School Principal Joe Clark

"You cannot use a democratic and collaborative style when crisis is rampant and disorder reigns... You need an autocrat to bring things under control."

- Kenneth Tewel, former Principal, on  Principal Joe Clark

From Sardinha's "On Behalf of the Commoner"

"So that it won’t be so is why we go back to the highest undertaking of our duty as Portuguese, which is nothing but the promotion between us of a restoration of intelligence. From one side and the other of the trench where Portugal cuts itself from top to bottom, swarm, in an awkward unconsciousness, the same puppets, the same fakes, whose geneology Eça de Queiróz has outlined in his work full of the utmost demolishing intent. Portugal dies, because, like a Berber tribe, it has let the roots that chain it to the eternal soul of history go dry. Thus, it is up to us - a minority, if we are to be judged - to rebuild, before anything else, the moral physionomy of nationality, by drinking in the heritage of past generations the sacred stimulae that will open before us, one after the other, the mysterious doors of the future." 

- António Sardinha in "A Prol do Comum (On Behalf of the Commoner)", 1934

Image and text from O Horizonte Português - The Sun at Night

A Quote from William Joyce on Britain and World War II

"Britain's victories are barren; they leave her poor, and they leave her people hungry; they leave her bereft of the markets and the wealth that she possessed six years ago. But above all, they leave her with an immensely greater problem than she had then. We are nearing the end of one phase of Europe's history, but the next will be no happier. It will be grimmer, harder and perhaps bloodier. And now I ask you earnestly, can Britain survive?"

- Broadcast from 30 April 1945; William 'Lord Haw Haw' Joyce's last

The well-known scar worn by Joyce was actually

earned while a member of the British Fascisti, the

first fascist group established in Britain

A Quote from Gentile's "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals"

"Fascism became, like Mazzini's Giovane Italia, the faith of all Italians who disdained the past and longed for renewal."

- from the "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" 

Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), Italian educator.

A Quote from Codreanu on Service to Homeland

"The Politician's goal is to build a fortune, ours is to build our homeland flowering and strong. For her we will work and we will build. For her we will make each Romanian a hero, ready to fight, ready to sacrifice, ready to die." 

- Corneliu Codreanu, 'The Nest Leader's Manual'