Giuseppe Garibaldi: “You who are here—you, the educated and cultivated portion of the citizenship—you have the duty to educate the people.”

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, which I had before admired and thought of frequently, I ever since have loved.

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?

In cases of difficulty or danger, I have never, in all my life, been disheartened.