I wanted, together with my friends, to raise a chorus on our own account, for it was irritating enough to witness a number of people sitting and fanning themselves, as though they came to be amused, instead of pouring out their very souls in honor of the great man who had liberated them.
Reflecting on a public event, Garibaldi expresses his frustration with the lack of enthusiastic participation from the liberated people.
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To arms all!—all!—and the oppressors, the supremely powerful, shall be turned into dust.
Education gives liberty—education gives to the people the means and the power to secure and defend their own independence.
On a strong and wholesome education of the people depend the liberty and greatness of Italy.
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