War is to man as motherhood is to woman.

La guerra sta all'uomo, come la maternità alla donna.

Benito Mussolini

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Topic

War

Speaker

Benito Mussolini

Language

Italian

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Dictator National leader Politician

From

Italy Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mussolini, Benito. Speech in Italy. 26 May 1934, Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, Italy.

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Another quote from the 1930s

Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Nature of life Life
Speaker
Sweeney

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
Fragment of an Agon
Language
English
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Eliot, T. S. "Fragment of an Agon." Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber & Faber, 1932.

Another quote about War

Laws are silent in time of war.

Cicero

Pro Milone

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Topic
Rule of law Law Legal theory Political theory War
Speaker
Cicero
Source
Pro Milone
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
Latin
Time
52 BC 50s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [In Defense of Milo]. c. 52 BC, sect. 11.

Current Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [For Milo], translated by D. H. Berry. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 11.

Another quote originally in Italian

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei

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Topic
Intellectual progress Scientific progress
Speaker
Sagredo

Author

Galileo Galilei
Language
Italian
Time
1638 1630s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Galilei, Galileo. "Giornata Prima [First Day]." Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze [Discourses and Mathematicals Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences]. Leiden: Ludovico Elzeviro, 1638.