Giuseppe Garibaldi: “The army of Corrientes was destroyed by Urquiza in a battle; and that unfortunate people, after swimming in blood…”

Education gives liberty—education gives to the people the means and the power to secure and defend their own independence.

You who are here—you, the educated and cultivated portion of the citizenship—you have the duty to educate the people.

To arms all!—all!—and the oppressors, the supremely powerful, shall be turned into dust.

This stupendous page of our history must be followed by one more glorious still; and the slave will finally show to the free brother a sharpened iron which belonged to the links of his chains.