On that day I felt a solemn impression on my heart, mingled with bitterness, like the feelings of warriors left languishing on a field of battle, and trampled on by the insolent soldier, by the hoof of the war-horse of the cruel, the implacable conqueror.
Garibaldi vividly describes the profound bitterness and despair he felt on a day of defeat, likening it to the suffering of vanquished warriors.
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To arms all!—all!—and the oppressors, the supremely powerful, shall be turned into dust.
It is the Pope-king who retards the moment of the complete liberation of Italy.
Education gives liberty—education gives to the people the means and the power to secure and defend their own independence.
But the Pope, who wishes all men to be slaves—who demands, of the powerful of the earth, fetters and chains for Italians—the Pope-king does not know Christ: he lies to his religion.
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