Emilio De Bono

"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?"

"If you know anything, deny, deny, deny. I want to save Fascism."

"Forgive me, that was the soldier speaking. Now this is the man speaking again. And the man is more than the soldier. I can bear anything. Death is a more solemn thing than all the earthly trash."

"This was a great reward for us. We had not had the good fortune to meet the enemy in force."

"We look on seriously, but serenely."