Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Remain firm in the consciousness of your rectitude, and with the faith in which many armed apostles among you have died.”

The friend dear to my heart was sunk in the waves of that ocean which he had not feared, in his desire to join with me in serving the cause of mankind.

She will feel the want of them in the day when she shall rise to drive the ravens from the corpses which they devour.

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.

I then ran to the Italian Legionaries; and, in order to destroy, or at least to mitigate the impression which might be produced on them by the appearance of so formidable an enemy, said: "We will fight!