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When two sides are locked in an irreconcilable struggle, the solution—
as always in history—is force.
There has never been another solution, and there never will be.

Now I dare say the problem will be resolved.
Fascism—both Government and Party—is fully operational.

Gentlemen, you deceived yourselves!
You thought Fascism was finished just because I was restraining it,
That the Party was dead because I was disciplining it—
And worse, because I had the cruelty to say so openly.

If I had used even a hundredth of the energy I used to restrain Fascism to unleash it—
Oh, you would see then…

But there will be no need for that—
Because the Government is strong enough to crush the Aventine sedition completely and definitively.

Italy, gentlemen, wants peace. It wants tranquility. It wants the calm of productive work.
We shall give it to her—with love, if possible; with force, if necessary.

And you can be sure of this:

Within 48 hours of this speech, the situation will be clarified—across the entire country, as they say.

Because we all know that what is at stake here is not personal ambition,
not the lust for power,
not base passions—
But a love—immense and powerful—
For our country.