Giuseppe Garibaldi: “The little column proceeded in the most admirable manner, so that I must ever speak of their conduct with pride.”

I was enlisted in a new and hazardous enterprize, and, for the first time, turned a helm for the ocean with a warlike flag flying over my head—the flag of a republic—the Republic of Rio Grande.

Rome, once the capital of the world, now the capital of a sect!

Those young chiefs, who had become illustrious by surprising deeds in delivering their country from the oppressive dominion of Rosas, now, for jealousy and thirst of power, debased themselves by the meanest treachery, and thus ruined the…

The sufferings which I endured after being unbound were indescribable: yet I did not complain.