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The next two years saw Mussolini dismantle the edifice of liberty and replace it with the beginnings of totalitarianism. Democracy for Mussolini was a ‘fallacy’. It was time, he said, to bury the ‘putrid corpse of liberty’. Everything, said Mussolini in October 1925, was to be ‘within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state’. Mussolini sought to change Italian society. Discipline, faith, hard work, firm government and the utter belief in the state would make Italians and therefore Italy stronger. Italians, he exclaimed, had to ‘believe, obey, fight’.