She does not know that in you there are the elements of a great nation, and that in your free and independent hearts there germinate the seeds of a world-wide revolution if our rights shall not be recognized, and if people will not allow us to be masters in our own home.
He warned that if Italy's rights were not recognized and its people denied self-determination, their spirit could ignite a global revolution.
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I not only admired her for her former power and the remains of antiquity, but even the smallest thing connected with her was precious to me.
The future Rome, rising to regenerate the nation, has now long been a dominant idea in my mind, and inspired me with hope and energy.
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?
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.
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