Giuseppe Garibaldi: “I have served the cause of the people in America, and served it with sincerity, as I everywhere fought against…”

We were in danger of growing up with only selfish and mercenary views: nothing was offered us as a reward for anything we could do, but money.

When I recur to the principles which were inculcated at school, and the motives used to encourage us to study, I am now able to understand their unsoundness and their evil tendency.

There is not a spot of ground on earth in which do not lie the bones of some generous Italian, for whose sake Italy ought never to cease from the struggle until free herself.

One of the greatest sorrows of my life is, that I am not able to brighten the last days of my good parent, whose path I have strewed with so many sorrows by my adventurous career.