I wish, for myself, and for every other person who has not forgotten to be a man, to be exempt from the necessity of witnessing the sack of a town.
Giuseppe Garibaldi: “I wish, for myself, and for every other person who has not forgotten to be a man, to be exempt from the necessity of…”
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Reflecting on the horrors of war, Garibaldi expresses his profound wish to never again witness the pillaging of a town.
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