In whatever way the spirit of the French and Italian legions may be viewed, it must not be denied that the first call to arms was answered by a generous rising, to repel the invasion of their adopted country: but afterwards individuals were introduced, whose interested views were quite on the contrary side.
Garibaldi provides a complex assessment of the foreign legions, acknowledging their initial patriotic fervor while also noting the later infiltration of self-interested individuals.
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I love and venerate the religion of Christ, because Christ came into the world to deliver humanity from slavery, for which God has not created it.
But the Pope, who wishes all men to be slaves—who demands, of the powerful of the earth, fetters and chains for Italians—the Pope-king does not know Christ: he lies to his religion.
Let no one misunderstand my words—let no one confound Popery with Christianity—the Religion of Liberty with the avaricious and sanguinary Politics of Slavery.
It is the Pope-king who retards the moment of the complete liberation of Italy.
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