Giuseppe Garibaldi: “The canker, the ruin of our Italy, has always been personal ambitions—and they are so still.”

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?

With courage, cheerfulness, and perseverance, no enterprise is impossible; and, for these I must do justice to my favorite companion and usual forerunner, John Griggs, who surmounted numerous difficulties, and patiently endured many…

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.

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