Giuseppe Garibaldi: “We have learned that, to conquer, it is enough not to fear death.”

Her tender affection for me has, perhaps, been excessive; but do I not owe to her love, to her angel-like character, the little good that belongs to mine?

But who, in those days, had ever taught them how to be patriots and Italians?

One of the greatest sorrows of my life is, that I am not able to brighten the last days of my good parent, whose path I have strewed with so many sorrows by my adventurous career.

In mentioning my mother—I speak it with pride—she was a model for mothers; and, in saying this, I have said all that can be said.