Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Truly many of the common soldiers of this patriot army might take rank beside them.”

Even in exile, these feelings were constantly cherished in my heart; and often, very often, have I prayed to the Almighty to permit me to see that city once more.

But who, in those days, had ever taught them how to be patriots and Italians?

Rome, once the capital of the world, now the capital of a sect!

How everything is embellished by the feelings of youth, and how beautiful appeared, to my ardent eyes, the bark in which I was to navigate the Mediterranean, when I stepped on board as a sailor for the first time!