Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Every civilized land has echoed the bell which has been tolled in Italy for the annihilation of despotism.”

On a strong and wholesome education of the people depend the liberty and greatness of Italy.

Education gives liberty—education gives to the people the means and the power to secure and defend their own independence.

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

I love and venerate the religion of Christ, because Christ came into the world to deliver humanity from slavery, for which God has not created it.