"I am not sorry for what I did because it was God's will."

“Why Libya Commemorates the 'Black Day'”

“Italian occupation and resistance”

“It is useless for you to ask me single facts. Whatever has been committed against Italy and the Italians for the past ten years was willed and permitted by me, whenever I did not personally take part in the acts themselves. … The raids, too, were ordered by me and some of them carried out by me.”

“From God we have come and to God we must return.”

“We do not surrender — we win or die. You've to fight the next generation and the next... and I'll live more than my hanger.”

“I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.”