“Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.”

— Benito Mussolini

The Lazio Speeches (1936), as quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (2003) p. 87.
1930s

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