Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Spurning every suggestion of fear, she came forward to the assistance of the tortured prisoner; and from that time I…”

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.

Who, indeed, had then ever said, on those shores, to those young men, that there was such a thing as Italy, or that they had a country to be ameliorated and redeemed?

She knew me when I was in misfortune; and her interest in me, stronger than any merit of my own, conquered her for me, and united us for ever.

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.