It is personal ambitions which blind the Pope-king, and urge him to oppose this national movement, so great, so noble, so pure—yes, so pure—that it is unique in the history of the world.
Garibaldi criticizes the Pope-king for allowing personal ambition to obstruct the pure and unique Italian national movement.
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Although certainly not superstitious, often, amidst the most arduous scenes of my tumultuous life, when I have passed unharmed through the breakers of the ocean, or the hail-storms of battle, she has seemed present with me.
In cases of difficulty or danger, I have never, in all my life, been disheartened.
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.
The friend dear to my heart was sunk in the waves of that ocean which he had not feared, in his desire to join with me in serving the cause of mankind.
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