Giuseppe Garibaldi: “In their very attitude, there is an air of self-respect and independence to which I have long been a stranger.”

The sufferings which I endured after being unbound were indescribable: yet I did not complain.

In mentioning my mother—I speak it with pride—she was a model for mothers; and, in saying this, I have said all that can be said.

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.

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.