The Old Axiom That 'all Power Corrupts'

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.

I Am Not, And Never Have Been, A Man Of The Right. My Position Was On The Left And Is Now In The Centre Of Politics.

Ideas In A Void Have Never Appealed To Me; Action Must Follow Thought Or Political Life Is Meaningless.

A Prophet Or An Achiever Must Never Mind An Occasional Absurdity, It Is An Occupational Risk.

The Old Axiom That 'all Power Corrupts' Has Doubtful Validity, Because It Derives From Our Neglect Of Plato's Advice To Find Men Carefully And Train Them By Methods Which Make Them Fit For Heroes.