Giuseppe Garibaldi: “They several times repelled assaults in the breach, and paid with the precious life of many young men, the hope of the…”

When I recur to the principles which were inculcated at school, and the motives used to encourage us to study, I am now able to understand their unsoundness and their evil tendency.

There is not a spot of ground on earth in which do not lie the bones of some generous Italian, for whose sake Italy ought never to cease from the struggle until free herself.

They sang of love, until I was transported; and they endeavored to excite themselves to patriotism by singing of Italy!

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.